Questions and answers
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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Question reference: S4O-01531
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 November 2012
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will increase access to college courses for senior school pupils.
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Question reference: S4O-01523
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2012
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans that the Scottish Energy Skills Academy, as stated by the Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, will be anchored in the north east of Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-09993
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 14 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government whether ministers have met the chief executive or other senior representatives of the Health and Safety Executive since 2007 to discuss matters affecting the energy industry in Scotland, given the potential impact on costs and employment, when the last meeting took place; what issues were discussed, and whether ministers will hold regular such meetings.
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Question reference: S4W-09992
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 14 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government whether ministers have met the chief executive or other senior representatives of the Health and Safety Executive since 2007 to discuss matters affecting the offshore oil and gas industry, given the potential impact on costs and employment in Scotland-based companies supplying the industry, when the last meeting took place; what issues were discussed, and whether ministers will hold regular such meetings.
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Question reference: S4W-10312
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 14 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it had with the administration of Aberdeen City Council prior to May 2012 regarding the council's tax incremental financing application.
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Question reference: S4W-10313
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what feedback each local authority received regarding the criteria used to select the tax incremental financing pilot projects.
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Question reference: S4W-10305
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government whether ministers set a requirement for the Scottish Futures Trust to have a geographical spread of tax incremental financing pilot projects and, if so, what that spread was.
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Question reference: S4W-10314
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Futures Trust grouped the applications for tax incremental financing pilot projects according to scale or content and how the shortlisted applications were grouped.
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Question reference: S4W-10309
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the (a) chairman and (b) chief executive of the Scottish Futures Trust regarding Aberdeen City Council's tax incremental financing application and when.
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Question reference: S4W-10304
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what criteria the Scottish Futures Trust used to assess the applications for tax incremental financing pilot projects.