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: S5W-02580
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 20 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether section 95 of the Scotland Act 1998 applies to all members of the judiciary or is limited to the Court of Session and the Scottish Land Court.
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Question reference: S5W-02581
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 20 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on members of the judiciary resigning instead of facing a tribunal under section 95 of the Scotland Act 1998.
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Question reference: S5W-01047
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 14 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-00632 by Annabelle Ewing on 17 June 2016, in light of the consultation on the Scottish Law Commission’s proposed new scheme for protection from disinheritance closing on 18 September 2015, whether it will introduce a bill to reform succession legal rights.
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Question reference: S5W-01046
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 12 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-00771 by Aileen Campbell on 29 June 2016, whether it will provide details of the agreed annual workplans and their accompanying budget projections.
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Question reference: S5W-00771
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 29 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what payments it made to ASH Scotland in December 2015, and what information it has regarding how much of this was used to lobby ministers about tobacco regulation.
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Question reference: S5W-00769
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 29 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the outcome was of its cost benefit analysis of its £38,013 payment to Christian Engineers in December 2015.
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Question reference: S5W-00767
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 29 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the outcome was of its cost benefit analysis of its (a) £82,628, (b) £70,032 and (c) £149,940.95 payment to Tearfund in December 2015.
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Question reference: S5W-00772
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 27 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of the funding that it provides to the Scottish Book Trust to help promote reading for pleasure from an early age.
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Question reference: S5W-00770
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 24 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the outcome was of its cost benefit analysis of its £50,000 payment to Filmhouse - Centre for the Moving Image in December 2015.
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Question reference: S5W-00768
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 23 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the outcome was of its cost benefit analysis of its £68,000 payment to the Scottish Mining Museum Trust in December 2015.
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