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-23595
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 20 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many jobs have been linked to the film and television production sector in Scotland in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S4W-23596
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 20 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how much the film and television production industry has contributed to the Scottish economy in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S4W-23733
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 13 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to review the provision of inpatient services for young people with autism and other learning disabilities.
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Question reference: S4F-02517
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 January 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 January 2015
To ask the First Minister what discussions the Scottish Government has had with the UK Government in light of the recent terrorist attacks in France.
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Question reference: S4W-23594
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 6 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many loans it has provided from its £2 million loan fund to assist the film and television production sector.
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Question reference: S4W-23566
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 5 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the announcement that the UK Government will fund income-contingent loans of up to £10,000 for postgraduate students on taught masters courses from 2016-17, whether it will match per capita funding for postgraduate students in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-23571
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 19 December 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of Transport Scotland’s recent review of the speed limits on the A85.
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Question reference: S4W-23572
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 19 December 2014
To ask the Scottish Government which sections of trunk roads have had their speed limits reduced in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S4O-03867
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 December 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the flooding infrastructure in Perth and Kinross.
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Question reference: S4W-23468
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 15 December 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how much out-of-authority (a) foster care, (b) residential care, (c) residential school, (d) secure care placements, (e) placements for people with complex learning difficulties and (f) other specialist placements have cost each local authority in each of the last five years for which information is available.
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