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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 20 July 2024
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Question reference: S1W-13713

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 13 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to support heritage initiatives in Kilmarnock and Loudoun.

Question reference: S1W-13134

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 12 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown, by local authority area, of the expenditure on the National Grid for Learning (NGfL) and what progress is being made towards the NGfL's targets.

Question reference: S1W-13086

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 9 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to relocate any of its departmental headquarters from Edinburgh to other parts of Scotland and whether it will provide details of any such plans.

Question reference: S1W-13087

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 9 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a detailed breakdown of the administration costs of each non-departmental public body for which it is responsible and what percentage of the total expenditure of each such body administration costs represent.

Question reference: S1W-13091

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 9 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of inward investment there has been into Scotland from (a) May 1999 to May 2000 and (b) May 2000 to January 2001.

Question reference: S1W-13092

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 9 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure, by health board area, on electronic service delivery in the health service for the current financial year and of projected expenditure for each of the next two years.

Question reference: S1W-12610

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 6 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the pupil/teacher ratio in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools is in each local authority area and whether it holds any similar information in relation to independent schools.

Question reference: S1W-12888

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 6 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all current Private Finance Initiative/Public Private Partnership projects in which it is involved and the annual interest payments associated with each.

Question reference: S1W-12883

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 6 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish details of any sales of body parts by hospitals and whether any such sales were part of an agreement relating to the funding of research.

Question reference: S1W-11903

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 5 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many representatives it had in the UK delegation to the recent EU Inter-Governmental Conference in Nice.