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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

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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 23 December 2024
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Question reference: S4W-21548

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether the preparatory work on the institutions, costs and staff referred to in paragraph 49 of the cabinet paper by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth that has appeared in the media has been destroyed.

Question reference: S4W-21550

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what the basis is for the assertion in the white paper on independence that “the investment in systems and processes will be a small proportion of an independent Scotland’s total budget”. 

Question reference: S4W-21549

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has asked Audit Scotland to consider modelling the costs of transition to independence using the Scottish Government’s preferred model for institutions and staff.

Question reference: S4W-21542

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether the update on the institutions, costs and staff numbers required for the transition to independence referred to in paragraph 49 of the cabinet paper by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth that has appeared in the media has been produced for the cabinet and, if so, whether it will be published before the referendum.

Question reference: S4W-21544

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what work it has undertaken in relation to the institutions, costs and staff numbers required for the transition to independence since the matter was referred to in paragraph 49 of the cabinet paper by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth that has appeared in the media.

Question reference: S4W-21540

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what estimates it has made of the costs of the transition to independence in the event of a Yes vote in the referendum.

Question reference: S4W-21547

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether ministers have, in the last two years, instructed officials to cease work on the preparation of estimates of the transition costs to independence in the event of a Yes vote in the referendum.

Question reference: S4W-21543

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many officials in the finance directorates and the office of the Chief Economic Adviser worked on the paper on the institutions, costs and staff numbers required for the transition to independence referred to in paragraph 49 of the cabinet paper by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth that has appeared in the media.

Question reference: S4W-21546

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to commission work on the costs of a transition to independence.

Question reference: S4W-21551

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of an independent Scotland’s total budget it estimates would be needed to invest in systems, processes and institutions required ahead of independence.