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-25275
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has consulted the Council of Economic Advisers on full fiscal autonomy and, if so, what view it expressed.
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Question reference: S4W-25277
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the costings produced by the UK Treasury that the fiscal loss under full fiscal autonomy will increase across the next parliamentary session from £7.7 billion in 2015-16 to £8.4 billion in 2019-20.
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Question reference: S4W-25276
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Council of Economic Advisers agrees with the assessment by the Institute for Fiscal Studies that there will be a budget shortfall of £7.6 billion a year with full fiscal autonomy.
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Question reference: S4W-25273
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it accepts the analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies that there would be a £7.6 billion gap in public finances with full fiscal autonomy.
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Question reference: S4W-25345
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether funding for the drug, Translarna, would be available from the New Medicines Fund and, if so, in what circumstances.
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Question reference: S4W-25343
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether people with muscular dystrophy can be prescribed the drug, Translarna, by the NHS.
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Question reference: S4W-25344
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how the New Medicines Fund was spent in 2014-15.
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Question reference: S4W-25269
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 6 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it remains its position that the referendum on independence will be a once in a generation opportunity, as noted in the response to question 557 on page 556 of its white paper on independence.
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Question reference: S4W-25219
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is on target to create 2,000 jobs by 2018 from its investment in innovation centres.
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Question reference: S4W-25220
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how spending by innovation centres is managed and whether it plans to audit the spending.
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