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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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Question reference: S4W-13217

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 5 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many serious disrepair notices have been placed on buildings in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.

This is a matter for local authorities. Buildings in a state of disrepair could have defective or dangerous building notices issued by individual local authorities, and limited information should be available on each authority’s online Building Standards Register.

We do not hold records going back to 1999. However, in the year 2010-11 the Building Standards Annual Return shows 96 notices were served on owners of defective buildings, and in 2011-12 there were 206 notices served.

The Annual Return also shows there were 187 dangerous buildings notices served on owners in 2010-11 and 212 notices were served in 2011-12.

A breakdown by local authority is given in the following table.

Local Authority	No of defective notices issued 2010-11	No of defective notices issued 2011-12	No of dangerous notices issued 2010-11	No of dangerous notices issued 2011-12
Aberdeen City	4	3	6	7
Aberdeenshire	0	0	15	9
Angus	0	1	2	2
Argyll and Bute	0	0	0	2
City of Edinburgh	0	0	0	0
Clackmannanshire	0	0	5	14
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	0	1	2	5
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0	2	1
Dundee City	0	0	0	7
East Ayrshire	0	0	6	15
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	3
East Lothian	0	0	3	2
East Renfrewshire	0	157	6	0
Falkirk	0	2	5	8
Fife	0	0	8	0
Glasgow City	0	0	3	4
Highland	13	3	18	2
Inverclyde	2	1	4	7
Midlothian	7	3	21	10
Moray	0	0	2	6
North Ayrshire	0	0	6	10
North Lanarkshire	24	14	17	29
Orkney	0	0	0	0
Perth and Kinross	3	3	5	0
Renfrewshire	25	0	10	18
Scottish Borders	17	12	9	10
Shetland Islands	0	0	2	1
South Ayrshire	0	0	1	4
South Lanarkshire	0	1	8	14
Stirling	0	1	3	7
West Dunbartonshire	0	2	0	2
West Lothian	1	2	18	20
Scotland	96	206	187	212

Question reference: S4T-00264

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 04 March 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the Scottish Qualifications Authority regarding contracts that the body has signed with foreign governments.

Question reference: S4W-13097

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 February 2013

To ask the Scottish Government when ministers will make a statement on the future provision of retained fire stations.

Question reference: S4W-13096

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 February 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussion ministers have had regarding the closure of retained fire stations.

Question reference: S4O-01802

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 February 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how it will implement its Working with China strategy.

Question reference: S4O-01780

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 February 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what air ambulance provision there is across Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-12310

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 30 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the delivery of health services in relation to projected population changes.

Question reference: S4W-12049

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 December 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 28 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many calls have been received by the pilot confidential alert line for NHS staff.

Question reference: S4W-12050

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 December 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 28 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what action has been taken to promote the pilot confidential alert line for NHS staff.

Question reference: S4W-12063

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 28 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many reports its directorates have made of lost documents since 2007.

Scottish Government directorates have made six reports of lost documents since 2007.

This answer is related to that provided to S4W-12062 on 28 January 2013, which states that seven documents were lost during the same timeframe. One report was related to the loss of two separate documents.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.