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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: S4W-04081

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-03198 by Nicola Sturgeon on 31 October 2011, when it plans to release section 16b funding to small third-sector organisations in 2012-13.

Question reference: S4W-03198

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 31 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to release section 16b funding to small third-sector organisations.

Question reference: S4F-00198

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 October 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 October 2011

To ask the First Minister when the Scottish Government will set a date for the referendum on independence.

Question reference: S4F-00132

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 September 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 September 2011

To ask the First Minister how the Scottish Government is helping the expansion of the whisky industry.

Question reference: S4W-01613

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive where the agenda and minutes of the NHSScotland National Planning Forum are published.

Question reference: S4W-01612

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the NHSScotland National Planning Forum will receive input from practising interventional cardiologists during its assessment of transcatheter aortic valve implantation and, if so, by what means.

Question reference: S4W-01610

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-00443 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 June 2011, what the earliest possible date is when patients will be able to undergo transcatheter aortic valve implantation at a centre in Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-01609

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-00443 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 June 2011, what the outcome was of the NHSScotland National Planning Forum meeting on 1 July 2011 and what timescale was agreed for its review of transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

The process for the review of the latest evidence on TAVI was considered by the NHSScotland National Planning Forum (NPF) on 1 July 2011. The NPF agreed that the Scottish Health Technologies Group will conduct a full analysis to assess whether the latest evidence offers more robust evidence about the clinical and cost effectiveness of TAVI.

It is expected that the outcomes of this review will be available later this summer.

Question reference: S4W-01611

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the NHSScotland National Planning Forum received input from practising interventional cardiologists during its discussion of transcatheter aortic valve implantation at its meeting on 1 July 2011 and, if so, by what means.

Practicing interventional cardiologists were not directly involved in NHSScotland National Planning Forum’s discussion at their meeting on 1 July 2011. As indicated in the answer to parliamentary question S4W-443 on 14 June 2011, advice will be sought from practicing interventional cardiologists as part of the established review process conducted by the Scottish Health Technologies Group.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/MAQASearch/QAndMSearch.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-01614

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive where the agenda and minutes of the Scottish Health Technologies Group are published.