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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 26 November 2024
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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.

Question reference: S2W-05608

  • 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 whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will now require the construction managers for the Holyrood project to provide a parent company guarantee.

Question reference: S2W-05609

  • 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 who took the original decision not to require a parent company guarantee from the construction managers for the Holyrood project; what information the SPCB has in respect of whether advice was given in relation to this and, if so, whether any such advice will be published; what information it has in respect of whether, and when, the Chief Architect offered any such advice; what information it has in respect of when the decision was taken and who was consulted about it; what information it has in respect of whether any Scottish Office minister was consulted on, or advised of, the decision and, if so when; whether all documentation relating to the decision will be published, and whether the decision not to seek the parent company guarantee was reported to the SPCB.

Question reference: S2W-06878

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the announcement of funding for autism initiatives by the Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care on 3 March 2004, it will consider funding an initiative to carry out research into diet and autism by Autism Unravelled, Action Against Autism, Food and Behaviour Research, academics from the universities of Oxford and Stirling and the Rowett Research Institute.