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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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Question reference: S3W-15379

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many playing fields there (a) are and (b) were in May 2007, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-15380

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many playing fields have been developed on since May 2007, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-15382

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities provide free year-round access to council swimming pools.

Question reference: S3W-15075

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 18 July 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many school buses are fitted with seatbelts, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-11367

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 17 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards are being put in place to ensure that university applicants from Scottish schools, who have been given unconditional offers, will not in any way be disadvantaged by new UCAS regulations, which take effect in academic session 2009-10, allowing pupils holding conditional offers the automatic right to upgrade to universities not listed on their UCAS application forms if their exam results exceed the conditions asked for.

Question reference: S3W-11737

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 April 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 15 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency calls originating from (a) public payphones and (b) mobile phones were made to raise the coastguard in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S3O-02062

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 31 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what efforts it is making to improve the quality of training provision for teachers and trainee teachers.

The Scottish Executiveencourages and supports partnership working between local authorities and teachereducation universities to ensure that initial teacher education courses and inductionarrangements provide the best possible preparation for student and probationer teachers.

We are also committedto ensuring that all teachers engage in relevant, high quality continuing professionaldevelopment opportunities that enable them to meet their full potential.

A recent example ofhow discussion about how a particular issue should be covered in initial teachereducation and reinforced by continuing professional development was a constructivemeeting involving Ministers, Deans of Faculties of Education and Sir Jackie Stewartabout dyslexia.

Question reference: S3W-06706

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive in how many cases contractors carrying out work on homes being fitted with heating systems under the central heating programme did not come from the local authority area in which the homes were located, broken down by (a) year since 1999 and (b) local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-06702

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on houses and cottages on private estates under the central heating programme in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S3W-06704

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what average mileage claims were made by contractors carrying out work on homes being fitted with heating systems under the central heating programme in each year since 1999.