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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

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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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 November 2024
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Question reference: S2W-02683

  • Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 September 2003
  • Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 7 October 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will be required to take in order to comply with those aspects of the Council of the European Union Directive 2003/9/EC which relate to devolved matters.

Question reference: S2W-01698

  • Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 July 2003
  • Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 23 September 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what proportion of, drink-driving cases reported to procurators fiscal have been prosecuted.

Question reference: S2W-02480

  • Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 08 September 2003
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 September 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how many careless driving offences have involved a fatality since statistics on careless driving were disaggregated to allow this information to be gathered.

Question reference: S2O-00422

  • Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2003
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 September 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether HM Prison Kilmarnock offers good value for money based on its performance.

Question reference: S2W-01383

  • Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2003
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 September 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has provided for initiatives to divert young people from crime, in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-01703

  • Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 July 2003
  • Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 27 August 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-34889 and S2W-111 by Mrs Elish Angiolini on 31 March and 21 July 2003 respectively, which sheriff court districts were not included in the data provided in the answer to question S1W-34889 because of the upgrading of the computer system in Glasgow.

Question reference: S2W-01651

  • Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 24 July 2003
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 August 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will introduce legislation to increase the age limit for possessing or using an airgun from 14 to 17 and ban some types completely.

Question reference: S2W-01610

  • Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 21 July 2003
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 19 August 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive when work on the new search engine for the Scottish Executive website (a) started and (b) will be complete and what features the search engine will have once complete.

Question reference: S2W-01650

  • Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 July 2003
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 August 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29433 by Mr Jim Wallace on 1 October 2002, when it will next attend a meeting of the reconstituted Firearms Consultative Committee and whether the Executive will make any representations to the committee and, if so, on what areas of concern.

Question reference: S2W-01554

  • Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2003
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 August 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on resourcing expert groups in each year since 1999.