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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

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search.  There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

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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 4 July 2024
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Question reference: S1W-27016

  • Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 24 June 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase funding for the procurator fiscal service to meet the demands being placed on the service.

Question reference: S1W-26782

  • Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 14 June 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 June 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive under which subject headings or names pathology information or information on death is stored in each hospital.

Question reference: S1W-26294

  • Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 24 May 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 17 June 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it or the Scottish Road Safety Campaign has any plans for a publicity campaign on the use of mobile telephones by drivers whilst driving and whether it will make representations to the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions in support of change in the law on this matter.

Question reference: S1W-25769

  • Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 May 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list each record held in each hospital in respect of death, pathology and post-mortem of children following intrauterine transfusions in each year from 1975 to 1985.

Question reference: S1W-25768

  • Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 09 May 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children died in each year from 1975 to 1985 in Simpson's Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, or following transfer to another hospital, after receiving an intrauterine transfusion.

Question reference: S1W-25060

  • Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 12 April 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers are due to retire in each of the next five years, broken down by force, and how many people are expected to graduate from the Scottish Police College in each of these years, giving their prospective force destination.

Question reference: S1W-22671

  • Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 7 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time taken to bring a case to trial was in each sheriffdom in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S1O-05088

  • Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 April 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 2 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken in order to deal with any delays in processing children's hearings caused during school holidays by the requirement for reports from educational professionals.

Question reference: S1O-05047

  • Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made on proposals for a railway stop close to Edinburgh Airport.

Question reference: S1W-24329

  • Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 12 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much lottery funding has been given to (a) Highlands and Islands Enterprise and (b) the Scottish Land Fund in respect of the community right to buy and crofting community right to buy elements of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill; whether such contributions were allocated from Scotland's share of lottery funds, and whether such contributions are within the original objectives for the allocation of lottery funding.