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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 25 November 2024
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Question reference: S1W-05692

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 12 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much capital debt was owed by each of Scotland's local authorities at the end of each of the last three financial years for which figures were available.

Question reference: S1W-05690

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 11 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many council tenants who bought their council house and subsequently sold the property were allocated another tenancy in the same local authority in each of the last three years for which figures are available, listed by local authority.

Question reference: S1W-05689

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 11 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of engineering companies have experienced an (a) increase or (b) decrease in order intake, output volume, staffing, optimism and investment over the last year and what steps will it take to assist the engineering sector.

Question reference: S1W-05694

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 11 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what blockages it has identified in local government which prevent modernisation and how it proposes to remove them.

Question reference: S1W-05628

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 10 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will be represented at the conferences on "Joining Up Local Government" and "Housing Benefit Fraud" in London, to be held on 11 and 14 April respectively, and whether it will provide reports on these conferences.

Question reference: S1W-05630

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 10 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that all members of its workforce have access to an occupational health service staffed by nurses who are appropriately trained and qualified.

Question reference: S1W-04804

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 February 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 6 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a specific definition of "modernisation of government" and what performance measures it will use to determine whether its objective of modernising government is being achieved.

Question reference: S1W-05389

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 4 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how private sector housing capital allocations will be affected when VAT refunds are no longer available.

Question reference: S1W-05439

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 20 March 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 3 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-5027 by Mr Jack McConnell on 17 March 2000, what the standard figure for band D council tax will be for 2000-01, and how that figure was arrived at.

Question reference: S1W-05166

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 31 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive why police forces will have to pay non-domestic rates from 1 April 2000; how much it anticipates each force will have to pay and what proportion this will be of each force's budget.