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-24689
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona McLeod on 11 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how it calculated the predicted cost of £880 million for 30 hours of funded weekly nursery care by 2020.
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Question reference: S4W-24717
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 11 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what support it will provide to bowling clubs to address the impact on them of the introduction of rates.
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Question reference: S4W-24548
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 20 February 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 6 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that Shetland Island Council's decision not to (a) produce a consultation report or (b) impose a five year moratorium, following its decision not to proceed with proposed closures of the junior secondary schools on Whalsay and Yell, is in accordance with the Children and Young People's (Scotland) Act 2014.
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Question reference: S4F-02629
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 March 2015
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on the National Trust for Scotland, the John Muir Trust and RSPB Scotland's view that the planning process should be wholly independent of government.
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Question reference: S4W-24444
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 February 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona McLeod on 2 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) health visitors and (b) teachers will have a legal right to opt out of being designated named persons under the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014.
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Question reference: S4W-24470
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 February 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 2 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many incidents there have been of pupils being injured at school in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S4W-24462
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 February 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 2 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government who the members will be of its expert group to review the guidance on assessing and reporting on the condition of the school estate, and when it will meet.
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Question reference: S4W-24445
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 February 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona McLeod on 26 February 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether parents will have a legal right to withdraw their children from the provisions of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 in relation to named persons.
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Question reference: S4W-24546
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 20 February 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 25 February 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to introduce average speed cameras on the (a) A92 and (b) A85.
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Question reference: S4O-04052
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 February 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 February 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what provisions there are for parents to access the medical records of their children.
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