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-22823
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 October 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 29 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how and where Transport Scotland advertises trunk road closures arising from community events.
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Question reference: S4O-03614
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 October 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to address youth unemployment in Dumfries and Galloway.
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Question reference: S4W-22590
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 25 September 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how it will support families living at a distance from the new national prison and regional units wanting to visit imprisoned female relatives.
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Question reference: S4W-22589
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 25 September 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how it is developing alternatives to custody for female offenders.
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Question reference: S4W-22558
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 September 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 8 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been allocated each local authority in 2014-15 to enable them to fully mitigate the so-called bedroom tax through the use of discretionary housing payments.
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Question reference: S4W-22559
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 September 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 6 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government when local authorities received funding to enable them to fully mitigate the so-called bedroom tax.
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Question reference: S4O-03564
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 September 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Dumfries and Galloway Council regarding its role in the proposed national resilience centre in Dumfries.
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Question reference: S4W-22328
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 August 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 4 September 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether a complaint can be lodged against a solicitor regarding a report to a sheriff on the proposed arrangements for the care and upbringing of a child and, if so, to whom.
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Question reference: S4W-22123
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 July 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 4 August 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-08399 by Keith Brown on 27 July 2012, for what reason the anticipated completion date of early 2014 for the A75 Hardgrove to Kinmount improvement scheme has not been met, and on what date it will be completed.
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Question reference: S4W-21961
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 June 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 24 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many full-time equivalent secondary school teachers in (a) mathematics, (b) chemistry, (c) physics and (d) biology there have been in each year since 2010.
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