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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 27 November 2024
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Question reference: S4W-22336

  • Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 11 August 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 8 September 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Qualifications Authority has succeeded in providing results from all examinations sat in the 2013-14 school year.

Question reference: S4O-03463

  • Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 August 2014
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 August 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth has allocated sufficient budget to meet in full the costs of revenue funding arising from capital investment in the proposed new cancer centre and women's hospital in Aberdeen.

Question reference: S4W-21786

  • Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2014

To ask the Scottish Government for what reasons and by whom the guidance was changed for police officers in the Grampian region dealing with trained emergency response drivers involved in collisions.

Question reference: S4W-21787

  • Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what guidance was in place in Grampian prior to April 2013 for police officers dealing with trained emergency response drivers involved in collisions.

Question reference: S4W-21785

  • Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how guidance has changed since April 2013 for Police Scotland officers in the Grampian region dealing with trained emergency response drivers involved in collisions.

Question reference: S4W-21833

  • Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 19 June 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 July 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-21612 by Kenny MacAskill on 18 June 2014, as the figures have not been published on the Police Scotland website, whether it will provide the information that was requested and confirm how many full-time equivalent officers were designated as local resources for (a) Aberdeen City and (b) Aberdeenshire and Moray Division as of (i) 30 June and (ii) 30 September 2013.

Question reference: S4W-19038

  • Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 December 2013
  • Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 26 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what ministerial engagements the First Minister carried out in Aberdeen on 2 December 2013 and, as specified in section 9.20 of the Scottish Ministerial Code, on what date the constituency and regional members for the area were informed.

Question reference: S4W-19039

  • Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 December 2013
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 26 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what ministerial engagements the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs carried out in Aberdeen on 7 December 2013 and, as specified in section 9.20 of the Scottish Ministerial Code, on what date the constituency and regional members for the area were informed. 

Question reference: S4W-21612

  • Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 June 2014
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 June 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many full-time equivalent officers were designated as local resources for (a) Aberdeen City and (b) Aberdeenshire and Moray Divisions as of (i) 30 June and (ii) 30 September 2013.