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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.

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Question reference: S2W-20334

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2005
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 11 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many legal firms are registered to provide legal aid services but do not do so.

Registration of firms to provide civil and/or children’s legal assistance was introduced on 1 July 2004. In the period to 31 July 2005, 54 of the 759 registered firms submitted no applications.

Registration of firms to provide criminal legal assistance was introduced in October 1998. Between 1 July 2004 and 30 June 2005 every one of the 637 firms on the register submitted at least one application in relation to one or more forms of criminal legal assistance.

Question reference: S2W-20143

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 7 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the small and medium-sized enterprises that have won public procurement contracts in Scotland in each year since 1999 were Scottish-based, expressed also as a percentage of total contracts awarded.

Question reference: S2W-19715

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 October 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 4 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what spending commitments it has made in each month since May 2003 broken down by month.

Question reference: S2W-20066

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 4 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects work to commence on the upgrade of the Bankfoot junction on the A9.

Question reference: S2W-20064

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 4 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in designing the junction improvements on the A9 at Bankfoot.

Substantial design work has beenundertaken on a number of possible junction layouts ranging from the constructionof the junction alone to the construction of the junction with an associated climbinglane with or without provision for future dualling. Extensive economic analysishas also been undertaken to identify which of the options represents the best valuefor money solution. A decision on the best option will be made later this month.

Question reference: S2W-20065

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 4 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive when orders will be published to upgrade the Bankfoot junction on the A9.

Question reference: S2W-19824

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 October 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported road traffic accidents in each of the last five years involved fire.

Question reference: S2W-19823

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 October 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported road traffic accidents, attended by the fire service, there were in each of the last five years.

The numbers of road traffic accidents attended by the Scottish fire and rescue services in the last five years are given in the following table.

Year	Number of Road Traffic Accidents Attended
2000-01	2,504
2001-02	2,736
2002-03	3,049
2003-04	2,677
2004-05	3,136

Question reference: S2W-19825

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 October 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported road traffic accidents there were where people were trapped and had to be released in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S2W-19822

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for North Tayside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 October 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported road traffic accidents there were in each of the last five years.

The road traffic accident statistics which are held centrally relate only to “injury” road accidents (those in which one or more people are injured). This information is collected in the GB-wide “STATS 19” returns, which do not collect details of “damage only” accidents.

The information requested, in respect of injury road accidents, is published in Table 7.1 of Scottish Transport Statistics No.24 2005 Edition, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37306).