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: S4W-19561
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 February 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 3 March 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether all men aged 50 and over have a right to a free prostate-specific antigen test from the NHS provided they have first been given sufficient information on the pros and cons to enable them to make an informed choice about taking the test.
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Question reference: S4O-02976
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 March 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the proposed abolition of honorary sheriffs will have on access to justice in rural and island areas.
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Question reference: S4O-02938
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 February 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 February 2014
To ask the Scottish Government when the Island Areas Ministerial Working Group will next meet and what will be discussed.
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Question reference: S4O-02889
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 February 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with SSE regarding options for reinforcing the electricity grid in Orkney.
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Question reference: S4W-19169
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 January 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 24 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) disabled students and (ii) students with additional support needs have attended further education college courses in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S4W-19068
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 January 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 16 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what recent guidance it has received from the European Commission on the impact of using the 5% uplift to basic payments for farmers in areas of natural constraint on less favoured area payments under Pillar 2.
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Question reference: S4W-19067
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 January 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 16 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it considers that using the 5% uplift to basic payments for farmers whose holdings are wholly or partly in areas of natural constraint would impact on less favoured area payments under Pillar 2.
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Question reference: S4W-19003
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 16 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to change the repayment threshold for student loans during the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S4W-18950
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 December 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 13 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the destinations of school leavers with additional support needs in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12 and (d) 2012-13.
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Question reference: S4W-18949
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 December 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 13 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the figures published in the Summary Statistics for Schools in Scotland, No 4: 2013 that suggest that the number of pupils with additional support needs is equivalent to 19% of the school population, and whether it considers that the decline in the number of teachers since 2010 leaves sufficient capacity for schools to deal with this.
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