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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-07434

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 02 April 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Deer Commission for Scotland has outlined to the Executive its reasons for not supporting deer fencing as an effective method of protecting trees; if not, whether this contributed to emergency measures to cull deer being taken, and whether the commission has acted upon advice in respect of appropriate practice in adopting certain types of fencing.

Question reference: S2O-02149

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 April 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on whether there should be no reduction of services at the Belford Hospital, Fort William.

Question reference: S2W-07194

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the total amount is of capital resources provided through all private finance initiative and public private partnership projects and what proportion this forms of the total capital resources available in the public sector in each financial year since 1999-2000, broken down by sector.

Question reference: S2W-07193

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11086 by Angus MacKay on 23 November 2000, whether it will (a) provide an up-to-date list of the public sector capital projects involving private finance (i) completed, (ii) planned and (iii) under way, giving both the start and estimated completion dates, (b) detail the total estimated capital investment included in the projects, (c) detail the annual public expenditure required to service these projects in both cash and real terms for each year of the life of the projects and (d) give the total lifetime cost of the projects, shown individually and by sector in both cash and real terms.

Question reference: S2W-07006

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 5 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received the report, The Case for Rail in the Highlands and Islands, published by Highlands and Islands Enterprise on 16 March 2004 and, if so, how it will use the information in the report to increase investment in the rail infrastructure in the Highlands.

Question reference: S2W-06894

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether those Territorial Army (TA) soldiers who reside in Scotland and (a) live alone or (b) live with a spouse or partner are entitled to remission of liability for council tax for the period of their absence from home on duty abroad and what its position is on the matter and, if there is no such remission of liability, whether it will (i) make representations to the Ministry of Defence to meet the costs of such liability for council tax of TA soldiers on duty abroad and (ii) take any steps or measures to address this matter.

Question reference: S2W-07089

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 1 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made available to the Holyrood Inquiry documents comprising any memoranda, notes or reports from the current Chief Executive of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and Head of Legal and Parliamentary Services and/or the Architectural Adviser to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, acting in their capacity as members of the Holyrood Progress Group, to the Executive regarding discussions at meetings of the group, with particular reference to any confidential matters raised and, if so, to whom such memoranda, notes or reports were addressed, whether they received any written or other response and whether it will make any, or all, of any such material public and place copies in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.

Question reference: S2W-05943

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 30 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what powers it has in respect of the regulations relating to the construction of roads and bridges and the upgrading of roads to dual carriageway status; what the criteria are which govern the decision as to whether an existing trunk road, comprising two carriageways, one carrying traffic in each direction, or part of such a road, should be upgraded to dual carriageway, and whether such a decision would be made by it or Her Majesty's Government.

Question reference: S2W-05857

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 January 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by George Reid on 26 March 2004

To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) can provide an unqualified assurance in writing to members of the Scottish Parliament that, if the SPCB does not take up the offer of the parent company guarantee, free of charge, from the construction managers of the Holyrood Project there will be no possibility of any risk to the taxpayer.

Question reference: S2W-05610

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 January 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by George Reid on 26 March 2004

To ask the Presiding Officer what information the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) has in respect of whether the parent company guarantee from the construction managers for the Holyrood project was to be obtained without charge; whether it can now be obtained without charge, and whether the SPCB can require it to be provided without charge.