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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

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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: S2W-25301

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-23155 by Cathy Jamieson on 20 March 2006 and in relation to the one further report commissioned by it as part of its defence of the civil action, whether it will provide details of the remit of the MacLeod reports and the one further report, when these reports were commissioned, who carried out the one further report, when the reports were completed and what the cost to it was of each report.

Question reference: S2W-26737

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 22 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children in each local authority area have been referred to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration in each year since 1995 and, of these, how many were diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder.

Question reference: S2W-25245

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 April 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-24164 by Cathy Jamieson on 3 April 2006, while party political affiliation is not identified in the Act, whether the Lord Advocate's political affiliation when he was appointed Solicitor General in 1999 was known to it and, if so, what account was taken of it.

Question reference: S2W-26732

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 21 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26016 by Lewis Macdonald on 30 May 2006 which states that “Children may be taken into care on a voluntary basis and the Scottish Executive does not hold this data”, whether this indicates that the Executive has data to show how many cases exist of children being taken compulsorily into care and, if so, what these figures are for each year since 1990.

Question reference: S2W-26670

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 21 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26033 by Mr Tom McCabe on 8 June 2006, how many of its ministers and officials attended the lecture given by Bill Clinton on 10 May 2006 at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow.

Question reference: S2W-26727

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26016 by Lewis Macdonald on 30 May 2006, whether this answer indicates that it and its agencies, such as the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, have no records or knowledge of children being taken into care as a result of a referral on the grounds of Munchausen syndrome by proxy in either or both parents.

Question reference: S2W-26729

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the review of cases of referrals of parents accused of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, or fabricating or inducing illness in their children, undertaken by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration in 2004 has been published and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.

Question reference: S2W-26730

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26016 by Lewis Macdonald on 30 May 2006, whether section 52 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 is the only legislation governing the grounds for referral to the Principal Reporter and, if not, what other legislation exists.

Question reference: S2W-26731

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26016 by Lewis Macdonald on 30 May 2006, if Munchausen syndrome by proxy, or fabricating or inducing illness, are not grounds for referral to the Principal Reporter, how they are defined within existing legislation.

Question reference: S2W-26703

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26488 by Allan Wilson on 8 June 2006, whether it has made representations to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills or to the Sector Skills Development Agency for more sector skills councils to be located in Scotland.