Questions and answers
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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Question reference: S4O-04273
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 April 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to raise the speed limit on A roads for HGVs over 7.5 tonnes.
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Question reference: S4W-25040
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 March 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 21 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many staff have been employed by the Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals in each year since 2007-08.
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Question reference: S4W-25038
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 20 March 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 20 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many language support assistants have been employed in primary schools in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S4W-25037
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 20 March 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 20 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many primary school teachers have received training for teaching modern languages in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S4W-25036
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 20 March 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 20 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many primary school teachers have an undergraduate degree in a modern foreign language.
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Question reference: S4W-25063
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 March 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 17 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many times mobile speed camera teams were deployed on dual carriageway sections of the A9 between Perth and Inverness from (a) October 2014 to March 2015 and (b) October 2013 to March 2014.
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Question reference: S4W-25041
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 March 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 8 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the budget for the Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals has been in each year since 2007-08.
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Question reference: S4W-25039
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 March 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 8 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many appeals have been submitted to the Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals in each year since 2007-08.
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Question reference: S4F-02722
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 March 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 April 2015
To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government respects the right of broadcasters such as the BBC to be free from political interference.
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Question reference: S4W-24892
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 March 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to prevent the loss of the grass species, or landrace, Scots’ Timothy (phleum pratense).
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