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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 21 July 2024
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Question reference: S2W-23891

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the prison population has been in each month in each of the last seven years.

Question reference: S2W-23859

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the decision by the Forth Estuary Transport Authority to install new toll booths on the Forth Road Bridge at a cost of £5 million was taken before the completion of the Tolled Bridges Review.

Question reference: S2W-23860

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the rationale was for the formation of the Forth Estuary Transport Authority.

Question reference: S2W-23894

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the staff costs have been for (a) HM Prison Kilmarnock since it opened in 1999 and (b) the Scottish Prison Service in total in each year since 1990.

Question reference: S2W-23880

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the rationale was for giving responsibility to the Forth Estuary Transport Authority to manage the Forth Road Bridge, given that there already existed an arrangement whereby motorways and trunk roads were the Executive's responsibility and local roads were local authorities' responsibility.

Question reference: S2W-23876

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the ministerial statement by the Minister for Transport and Telecommunications on 1 March 2006 (Official Report c. 23596), in what ways extra revenue raised by bridge tolls is being invested in local transport improvements.

Question reference: S2W-23842

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-21717, S2W-21718 and S2W-22016 by Cathy Jamieson and Mr Tom McCabe on 19 January, 20 January and 31 January 2006 respectively, what information it has on the total cost of the accommodation and meals provided to the 7,896 English and Welsh police officers deployed in Scotland in relation to policing the G8 summit and related events; whether this cost is additional to the £21,495 million spent on mutual aid to English and Welsh forces, and who met these costs.

Question reference: S2W-23837

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-22494 by Tavish Scott on 30 January 2006, whether this answer indicates that its sole rationale for bypassing Muirhead, Chryston and Moodiesburn is for the practical purpose that “the appropriate standards could not be achieved by an online upgrade” on the route of the A80 at these towns and whether, if it was possible to upgrade the A80 to full motorway status along the entirety of its route, this would be its preferred option, meaning that no bypass would be built at these towns.

Question reference: S2W-23834

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21753 by Cathy Jamieson on 2 February 2006, why it does not consider it appropriate to state an opinion on claims made by Senator Marty, given the possible implications of some of his claims for the administration of law and justice.

Question reference: S2W-23990

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to encourage local authorities to transfer the entirety of the socially rented housing stock that they presently manage to the management of a housing association.