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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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Question reference: S1W-01723

Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will, pending the outcome of any investigation by the Standards Committee into the reports by the Observer newspaper of 26 September 1999 regarding Beattie Media, (a) instruct the company that they may not enter any Scottish Executive office, (b) give an undertaking that it will not meet with Beattie Media and (c) request Beattie Media that it will not seek to influence the Executive on any matter.

Question reference: S1W-01732

Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that public funds should be used by public bodies for which it is responsible in the engagement of the services of lobbyist organisations or companies and, if so, for what purpose or purposes and why such services cannot be carried out by others already in the employ of the public sector.

Question reference: S1W-01727

Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what contact members and staff of the Executive have had with the Observer newspaper regarding the reports of 26 September 1999 and in particular whether there was any such contact with the newspaper before 26 September and, if so, whether it will specify the dates such contact took place.

Question reference: S1W-01731

Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will instruct or request that all public bodies for which it is responsible, including Executive Agencies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies, make available to the Scottish Parliament Information Centre details of any monies which have been paid, are due, or may become due to any lobbyist organisations or company.

Question reference: S1W-01733

Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that self-regulation by lobbyist organisations is adequate and if so, whether it will make a statement justifying its position.

Question reference: S1W-01173

Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 29 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take steps which would permit salmon farmers to obtain insurance cover for stocks destroyed by the Diseases of Fish (Control) Regulations 1994 (S1 1994/1447).

The insurance industry has indicated that it is not prepared to provide cover for Infectious Salmon Anaemia so long as EU legislation dictates immediate intervention by Government and compulsory slaughter of all fish when disease is confirmed.We are exploring the possibility of greater flexibility in the rules which might, over time, provide the incentive for involvement by the insurance industry.

Question reference: S1W-01172

Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 29 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what is the total annual value of the Scottish salmon farming industry's output and also the export value.

Question reference: S1W-01171

Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 29 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs are generated by the Scottish salmon farming industry in Scotland and how many of those are in the Highlands and Islands.

Question reference: S1W-01542

Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will delete the word "unwarranted" from the section headed "Third party's commercial confidence" in Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information and, if not, whether it will provide examples of the type of disclosures which it would regard as (a) warranted and (b) unwarranted.

Question reference: S1W-01541

Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a definition of the words "personal information" as used in the section headed "Privacy of an individual" in Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information and whether it will provide examples of what type of information about a person would not be regarded as "personal information".