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: S4W-02234
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether public funds may be used to secure a change in the ownership of a football club.
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Question reference: S4W-02233
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether public funds may be used to secure a change in the ownership of a private company.
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Question reference: S4W-02362
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sunbed operators have been prosecuted under the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S4W-02361
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many environmental health officers there are, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S4W-02317
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-01608 by Nicola Sturgeon on 4 August 2011, of the partial hand amputations that took place, how many patients could have been considered for prosthetics had they been available.
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Question reference: S4W-02298
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sunbed operators have been prosecuted under the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 for not displaying the relevant health and safety signage, in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S4O-00123
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what it considers the impact will be on ferry services and regeneration in the West of Scotland of the proposal to close the Clyde Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre.
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Question reference: S4W-02102
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 26 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of debt was of each local authority in the west of Scotland on 30 June 1999.
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Question reference: S4W-02100
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 26 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money each local authority in the west of Scotland has borrowed in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S4W-02117
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 26 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of debt is for each local authority in the west of Scotland.