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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

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search.  There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

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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 27 November 2024
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Question reference: S1W-30039

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 October 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made an assessment of any financial benefit the current exemption from the 20-day standstill regulations has brought to the islands.

Question reference: S1W-29110

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 September 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 October 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many High Court sentences have been reduced (a) under human rights legislation and (b) for any other reasons in each of the last three years and how many such sentences were originally life sentences.

Question reference: S1W-28643

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 26 August 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 4 October 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what public transport funding grants it has given per capita to each local authority in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S1W-28287

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 4 October 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how reliant the economy has been on foreign trade in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S1W-29981

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 October 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what the outcome was of the European Commission Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting on 23 to 24 September 2002 and whether it will give details of any discussion on the deep water fishery.

Question reference: S1O-05666

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 October 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it now has any plans to measure the impact on the economy of Her Majesty's Government's 10% tax on oil and gas profits.

Question reference: S1W-28978

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 05 September 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 2 October 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give a breakdown by local authority, expressed also as a ratio of the number of private water supplies in each area, of the #850,000 for the production of a comprehensive education and support package to professionals and users in respect of the potential risks of private water supplies, as referred to in the report by the Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland to the Ad Hoc Group of Ministers on Health and Public Water Supply.

Question reference: S1W-29490

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 September 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 2 October 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list each ministerial (a) committee and (b) sub-committee created since May 1999, giving the membership and the dates established and terminated in each case.

Question reference: S1W-29491

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 September 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 October 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list each task force created since May 1999, giving the membership and the dates established and terminated in each case.

Question reference: S1W-29065

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 06 September 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 25 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many places there were and what the ratio of applications to places available was at each dental school in each of the last three years and what the figures are for the current year.