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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: S3W-11391

Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 18 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average price is of an off-peak rail ticket between Milngavie station and Glasgow (a) Queen Street and (b) Central stations.

Question reference: S3W-11390

Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 18 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average price is of a peak-rate rail ticket between Helensburgh Central station and Glasgow (a) Queen Street and (b) Central stations.

Question reference: S3W-11382

Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 18 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many trains were cancelled between Dalmuir station and Glasgow (a) Queen Street and (b) Central stations in each year from 1997 to 2007, broken down by month.

Question reference: S3W-11381

Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 18 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many trains were delayed between Dalmuir station and Glasgow (a) Queen Street and (b) Central stations in each year from 1997 to 2007, broken down by month.

Question reference: S3W-11392

Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 18 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average price is of a peak-rate rail ticket between Milngavie station and Glasgow (a) Queen Street and (b) Central stations.

Question reference: S3W-11385

Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 18 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many trains were delayed between Helensburgh Central station and Glasgow (a) Queen Street and (b) Central stations in each year from 1997 to 2007, broken down by month.

Question reference: S3W-11387

Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 18 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average price is of an off-peak rail ticket between Dalmuir station and Glasgow (a) Queen Street and (b) Central stations.

Question reference: S3W-11380

Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 17 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many accidents involving vehicles were reported on the A739 (a) southbound and (b) northbound at the Clyde Tunnel in each year from 1997 to 2007, broken down by month.

The following table gives the number of reported injury road accidents which were identified as occurring on the A739 in the vicinity of the Clyde tunnel between 1997 and 2006. Road accidents can involve more than one vehicle and they could each be travelling in different directions. However, all the vehicles involved in the accidents shown in the table were northbound.

Reported injury road accidents on the A739 in the vicinity of the Clyde tunnel between 1997 and 2006

Year	January	March	October	November
1999	1	0	0	0
2001	0	0	1	1
2003	0	1	0	0

Source: Scottish Government STATS 19 returns.

Question reference: S3W-10487

Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 6 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in the Dumbarton parliamentary constituency have applied for free bus travel.

The legislation for the national concessionary scheme does not require us to hold this level of information relating to the number of applications made for free bus travel.

Statistics relating to the number of National Entitlement Cards issued to eligible participants in the National Concessionary scheme are available by local authority area.

At 28 February 2008 the number of National Entitlement Cards, which give an entitlement to Scotland-Wide Free Bus Travel issued to East Dunbartonshire Council residents was 22,524 and to West Dunbartonshire Council residents 19,118.

Question reference: S3W-10489

Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 6 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in the Strathkelvin and Bearsden parliamentary constituency have applied for free bus travel.

The legislation for the national concessionary scheme does not require us to hold this level of information relating to the number of applications made for free bus travel.

Statistics relating to the number of National Entitlement Cards issued to eligible participants in the National Concessionary scheme are available by local authority area.