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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

  • Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
  • Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 15 March 2025
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Question reference: S3W-05801

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 October 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what specific financial assistance it has formally requested from the UK Government other than assistance under the Sheep Welfare Scheme.

Question reference: S3W-05799

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 October 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it expects to be copied any future drafts of statements or other documents by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) following the Executive’s release of the recent DEFRA draft statement for the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Question reference: S3W-05793

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 October 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by local authority area of the number of sheep culled for welfare reasons under the Sheep Welfare Scheme.

Question reference: S3W-05806

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 October 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding is available under the Rural Development Plan which could be allocated to enable new rural abattoirs to be established.

Question reference: S3W-05798

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 October 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive in what respects it considered the NFU Scotland estimates quantifying the need for compensation for farmers in respect of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in August 2007 to be deficient.

Question reference: S3W-05797

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 October 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in respect of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in August 2007, any communication accompanying the draft statement provided to the Executive by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs that indicated what the Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and the Environment might say to the UK Parliament indicated that it had been approved by the Secretary of State as the final statement, or was qualified in any way as being a draft yet to be approved by the Secretary of State.

Question reference: S3W-05792

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 October 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been paid to farmers and crofters under the Sheep Welfare Scheme, also broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-05794

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 October 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many sheep it estimates were culled as a result of actions arising from the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak before the Sheep Welfare Scheme came into operation.

Question reference: S3W-05743

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 26 October 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 7 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-4248 by Fiona Hyslop on 25 September 2007, whether it will give examples of the reports referred to.

Question reference: S3W-05742

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 26 October 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 7 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the second supplementary to question S3F-125 by Alex Salmond on 6 September 2007 (Official Report, c. 1501), whether the phrase “so-called hit list” refers to the programme of school closures contained in Children & Families Estates Review: Rationalisation and Development Programme, approved by the City of Edinburgh Council Executive on 23 August 2007.