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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: S4W-28006

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was aware of any member of her staff who might be close to Jennifer Dempsie and was involved in her consideration of any of the issues relating to T in the Park 2015 when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Afffairs under the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S4W-28002

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what the First Minister understood was the basis for the Scottish Government grant to DF Concerts in respect of T in the Park 2015 when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs under the Scottish Ministerial Code; whether she was aware that (a) the grant had originally been requested to support infrastructure and (b) following discussion on what the money could be used for, it was agreed to allocate it for venue hire and consultant costs.

As set out in a letter to Willie Rennie MSP on 3 September 2015, having carefully considered the matter, including taking advice from the Permanent Secretary, the First Minister is satisfied that the decision taken by the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs to award funding was based solely on the merits of the case following an objective assessment by Scottish Government officials. Neither the cabinet secretary’s decision nor the objective assessment undertaken by officials was in any way influenced by factors external to the merits of the case.

Question reference: S4W-28011

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister knew that the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs was aware of the profits from previous T in the Park festivals before the decision was made to approve a grant to DF Concerts when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the cabinet secretary under the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S4W-28010

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was aware of the profitability of T in the Park when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs under the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S4W-28012

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was informed that DF Concerts had told the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs that consideration was being given to reducing the event to “single-day, single-stage events, possibly in a city such as Glasgow” or “to move the festival away from Scotland” (Official Report, c.5, 29 September 2015), when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the cabinet secretary under the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S4W-28003

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the evidence by the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs to the Education and Culture Committee on 29 September 2015 (Official Report, c.11), whether the First Minister was aware of the cabinet secretary's meeting with Jennifer Dempsie and Geoff Ellis of DF Concerts at the SNP Conference in March 2015 when she considered the complaint from Willie Rennie MSP about the cabinet secretary under the Scottish Ministerial Code, and who else was present at that meeting.

Question reference: S4W-28009

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister had seen a breakdown of how Scottish Government funding for T in the Park 2015 would be spent before it was approved.

Question reference: S4W-28005

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was informed that the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs had had no relationship “as a friend or anything like that” (Official Report, c.13, 29 September 2015) with Jennifer Dempsie in the last six years when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary under the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S4W-28004

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was aware that Jennifer Dempsie was part of the team who worked for DF Concerts preparing the planning application for T in the Park 2015 when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs under the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S4W-28013

Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was aware that the amount of Scottish Government grant provided to DF Concerts in relation to T in the Park 2015 was agreed before a formal application was discussed and submitted when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs under the Scottish Ministerial Code.