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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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Question reference: S3W-15183

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 July 2008
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 5 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on crops until research on their impact on the honeybee population has been carried out.

Question reference: S3W-12842

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2008
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 25 July 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of pupils left each local authority secondary school in Glasgow with at least one higher in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Question reference: S3W-14755

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 27 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 17 July 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what benefits it expects that the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games will bring to Tayside.

The Scottish Government has a very clear commitment to ensuring that the whole of Scotland benefits and has a lasting legacy from the Commonwealth Games in 2014.

We want to maximise opportunities such as ensuring Scottish businesses are well-placed to bid for contracts arising from the games, that visitors to the games are encouraged to travel to other parts of the country, and that youngsters everywhere are inspired to take up sport.

Our aim is to have a detailed Games Legacy Plan published by summer 2009 which will make clear what we aim to achieve and by when. The content of that Legacy Plan will be informed by the analysis and consideration of the responses to our Consultation Paper, Glasgow 2014: Delivering a Lasting Legacy to Scotland, the responses to the Young Scot consultation on games legacy and the feedback from our series of public meetings, including one held in Perth on 2 June, that we are conducting across the country from May to July.

Question reference: S3W-14753

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 27 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 17 July 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive which communities in Tayside will not be broadband-enabled by the end of 2008.

Under the government’s broadband reach contract, a service will be delivered to those eligible households and businesses out of reach of broadband who have registered their demand with the government. Deployment will commence this month and should be completed by May 2009. Specific timescales for Tayside will be clarified as the project progresses and notified directly to registrants by the contractor, Avanti Caledonian Broadband Ltd.

Question reference: S3W-14680

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 July 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive which GPs practices on the mainland still provide out-of-hours service cover.

The following mainland practices still provide out-of-hours cover:

NHS Grampian

Braemar Health Clinic, St Andrews Terrace, Braemar

NHS Highland

Pines Medical Practice, Acharacle

The Surgery, Applecross

Armadale Medical Practice, Armadale

The Medical Centre, Campbeltown

The Surgery, Durness

Gairloch Health Centre, Auchtercairn, Gairloch

The Surgery, Furnace, Inveraray

Scourie and Kinlochbervie Medical Practice, Health Centre, Kinlochbervie

The Ferguson Medical Centre, Lochcarron

Lochgilphead Medical Practice, Lochgilphead

Assynt Medical Practice, Main Street, Lochinver

Port Appin Surgery, Port Appin

The Surgery, Muasdale, Tarbert

Burnside Surgery, Tighnabruaich

The Health Centre, St Andrew’s Glebe, Tongue

Torridon Medical Practice, Fassaig, Torridon

Ullapool Health Centre, North Road, Ullapool.

Question reference: S3W-14681

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 July 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13021 by Shona Robison on 2 June 2008, why the answer states that no conditions were placed on the new practice as far as out-of-hours services were concerned, when paragraph 9 of the NHS Tayside medical practice vacancy specification document for the Kinloch Rannoch Medical Practice states “OOH (out-of-hours) care will be a core component of the specification”.

NHS boards are under a statutory duty to ensure the provision of primary medical services throughout their areas. It is open to NHS boards to offer contracts for the performance of such services. The vacancy specification document stated that NHS Tayside would work with the successful applicants with a view to seeking innovative solutions to the provision of the out-of-hours component. No bids, however, were received that included out-of-hours cover. Consequently, NHS Tayside awarded a contract on the basis of the proposals for core hours and has itself continued to provide out-of-hours services.

Question reference: S3W-14325

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many pages of instruction, guidance, regulation and any other sort of direction it has issued to chief constables in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S3W-14326

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many documents containing instructions, guidance, regulation and any other sort of direction it has issued to Chief Constables in each of the last five years.

The Scottish Government issues guidance to all police forces and police boards in the form of police circulars. These cover a range of topics including the impact of new legislation and changes to police pay and allowances. During each of the last five years the number of circulars issued has been as follows:

2007	8
2006	5
2005	13
2004	23
2003	12

Full details on the content of these circulars can be found on the government’s website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/Police/Circulars/2007.

In addition to the distribution of police circulars, ministers and officials are in regular contact with chief constables on a wide range of matters.

Question reference: S3W-14757

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 27 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Bruce Crawford on 14 July 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each parliamentary question costs, on average, to answer.

Question reference: S3W-14756

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 27 June 2008
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 14 July 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to put pressure on the G8 leaders to keep their promises made at the G8 summit in Gleneagles on 8 July 2005.