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-15496
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Independent
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 June 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 18 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what recent impact assessment it has made of fees charged to patients who want a copy of their medical records.
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Question reference: S4W-15190
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Independent
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether it responds to questions posed to it via Twitter and other social media.
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Question reference: S4W-15463
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Independent
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2013
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 17 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4F-01418 by Alex Salmond on 30 May 2013 (Official Report, c. 20501), what estimate it has made of how much money would be allocated to Scotland if all corporation tax due to be paid was collected.
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Question reference: S4W-15194
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Independent
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 10 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has provided any funding to Direct Rail Services Ltd since 1999.
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Question reference: S4W-15196
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Independent
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 10 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the possible environmental impact, what its position is on the Nuclear Decommission Authority's statement in its letter to John Finnie dated 21 May 2013 regarding shipments of nuclear fuel by rail from Dounreay to Cumbria that “There are no plans to carry out a consultation exercise with specific communities along the route from Caithness to Cumbria.”
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Question reference: S4W-15192
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Independent
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 6 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the possible environmental impact, what discussions it has had with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority since December 2012 regarding the transportation of nuclear fuel by rail; who participated, and what the outcome was.
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Question reference: S4W-15191
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Independent
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 6 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the transportation of radioactive waste by rail.
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Question reference: S4W-15193
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Independent
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 6 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the possible environmental impact, what discussions it has had with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) regarding material at Dounreay described as exotics in the NDA’s strategy document.
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Question reference: S4W-15195
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Independent
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 6 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the possible environmental impact, what discussions it has had since December 2012 with the UK Government regarding the transportation of nuclear fuel from Dounreay to Cumbria; who participated, and what the outcome was.
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Question reference: S4W-15382
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Independent
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 6 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the possible environmental impact, what its position is on the transportation of exotic nuclear fuels by rail.
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