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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-06655

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the names and positions of the participants in the group charged with overseeing the process of implementation of single outcome agreements.

This group has recentlybeen established and its membership is as follows:

Rab Fleming, DeputyDirector, Public Service Delivery Division, Scottish Government;Caroline Gardner, Deputy Auditor General and Controller of Audit, Audit Scotland;Colin MacLean, Director, Children, Young People and Social Care Directorate, ScottishGovernment; Colin Mair, Chief Executive, Improvement Service; Rory Mair, Chief Executive,Convention of Scottish Local Authorities; Bernadette Malone, Portfolio Holder, BestValue and Performance, Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (Scotland), andChief Executive, Perth and Kinross Council; Ruth Parsons, Director, Public ServiceReform Directorate, Scottish Government, and Gavin Whitefield, Chair, Society ofLocal Authority Chief Executives (Scotland), and Chief Executive, North LanarkshireCouncil.

Question reference: S3W-06659

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the names and positions of the participants in the group charged with overseeing the process of managing the single outcome agreements’ arrangements.

Question reference: S3W-06637

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what role it expects the Parliament to have in monitoring outcome agreements between the Executive and local authorities.

Question reference: S3W-06660

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what input it expects that the Parliament will have to the group charged with overseeing the process of managing the single outcome agreements’ arrangements.

Question reference: S3W-06658

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive when the group charged with overseeing the process of implementation of single outcome agreements will meet the Local Government and Communities Committee of the Parliament.

Question reference: S3W-06657

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Local Government and Communities Committee of the Parliament will be represented on the group charged with overseeing the process of implementation of single outcome agreements.

Question reference: S3W-06661

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Local Government and Communities Committee of the Parliament will be represented on the group charged with overseeing the process of managing the single outcome agreements’ arrangements.

Question reference: S3W-06578

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what role it expects the Parliament to have in the process of arriving at single outcome agreements between the Executive and local authorities.

Question reference: S3W-07087

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 11 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-6388 by Stewart Maxwell on 26 November 2007, whether an analysis of responses to correspondence from the Minister for Communities and Sport on the future of sportscotland will be published prior to a decision being made.

Question reference: S3W-07086

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 11 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-6388 by Stewart Maxwell on 26 November 2007, whether copies of the correspondence to all those from whom he has sought views on the future of sportscotland will be published.