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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 21 July 2024
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Question reference: S3W-39409

  • Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been referred to centres in England to undergo a transcatheter aortic valve implantation, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S3W-39272

  • Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scots have been offered places on speed awareness courses in England after being caught speeding in England and unable to attend such a course in Scotland in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S3W-39271

  • Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many speeding offenders have been detected at speeds that fall within the parameters of eligibility for the Speed Awareness Course in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S3W-39274

  • Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason Scotland is the only part of the United Kingdom that does not offer drivers speed awareness courses as an alternative to prosecution for low-end speeding offences.

Question reference: S3W-39273

  • Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to supporting speed awareness courses in Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-39419

  • Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it spent on marketing between April 2010 and 1 February 2011 and how much it plans to spend before the dissolution of the Parliament in March 2011.

Question reference: S3W-39417

  • Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the 2010-11 budget for its Marketing Unit had been spent by 1 February 2011 and how much is budgeted to be spent in the coming months.

Question reference: S3W-39418

  • Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an itemised breakdown of how its Marketing Unit budget has been spent in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S3W-39420

  • Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an itemised breakdown of what it has spent on marketing in each of the last five years and of planned spending before the dissolution of the Parliament in March 2011.

Question reference: S3W-38958

  • Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 January 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 22 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what improvements were carried out to the A9 trunk road (a) from May 1979 to May 1997, (b) from May 1997 to May 2007 and (c) since May 2007; what the cost of each was expressed in today's terms, and when each improvement was first announced.