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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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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 20 July 2024
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Question reference: S1W-22493

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings of the EU Council of Ministers have been attended by its ministers since March 2000, expressed also as a percentage of the overall total of meetings held.

Question reference: S1W-22491

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many visits it has received from overseas governments since July 1999 and which ministers met each delegation.

Question reference: S1W-22472

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many times its ministers have requested to speak at meetings of the Council of Ministers and how many times permission was granted since July 1999.

Question reference: S1W-22480

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its policy on external relations.

Question reference: S1W-22475

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much the external relations budget was, and how many civil servants were engaged in matters relating to external relations, in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S1W-22481

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many official visits have been undertaken outwith Scotland by (a) the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Justice in relation to his responsibility for external relations and the development and implementation of links with Europe and (b) the former ministers with responsibility for Europe and external affairs since July 1999.

Question reference: S1W-22843

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 21 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what financial assistance (a) is currently available and (b) will be available in 2002-03 to all farmers whose operations are affected by nitrate vulnerable 'one designations.

Question reference: S1W-22842

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 21 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many official engagements the First Minister has carried out in the north east Scotland parliamentary region since his appointment and whether it will detail these engagements.

Question reference: S1W-22496

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Mike Watson on 19 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Her Majesty's Government in support of the creation of a permanent place for Scotland on the body which is replacing the Independent Television Commission.

Question reference: S1W-22603

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many sheriff court cases in (a) Scotland and (b) each court have been postponed on the day of commencement due to technicalities or other reasons and what the estimated cost was resulting from such postponements in each case, in each of the past three years and in the current year.