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-26451
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it did not list more than eight projects as being delayed by the changes to the Eurostat designation of capital projects.
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Question reference: S4W-26464
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the level of public sector indebtedness is for all capital projects for each year from 2007 to 2050.
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Question reference: S4W-26460
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether the board of the Scottish Futures Trust's revised design-build-finance-maintain structure will be under private sector control.
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Question reference: S4W-26443
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the construction of (a) Our Lady and St Patrick’s High School, (b) the North West Edinburgh Partnership Centre, (c) the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, (d) the Dumfries and Galloway Infirmary and (e) the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route has been delayed and what the (i) length and (ii) cost of the delay is.
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Question reference: S4W-26454
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the Office for National Statistics classification that the non-profit distributing model is a public-private partnership.
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Question reference: S4W-26468
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the advice that it has received from Pinsent Masons about the new design-build-finance-maintain capital projects model.
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Question reference: S4W-26462
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Futures Trust's proposed model for design-build-finance-maintain projects will have an impact on so-called soft services.
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Question reference: S4W-26449
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will meet the cost of delays to capital projects resulting from changes to the Eurostat designation of capital projects.
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Question reference: S4W-26441
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government which capital projects have been affected by the changes to the Eurostat designation of capital projects.
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Question reference: S4W-26466
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has had voluntary ex-ante transparency notices published in the Official Journal of the European Union regarding its intention to change the hub delivery structure.