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: S4T-00686
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 May 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the National Review of Asthma Deaths, which suggests that some deaths from the condition arise because of complacency among both medical staff and patients.
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Question reference: S4F-02068
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 May 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 May 2014
To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.
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Question reference: S4W-20669
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 April 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the assumption in the Oxford Economics report, The potential implications of independence for businesses in Scotland, that the £250 million figure in its white paper on independence that was attributed to a simplified tax system, is the result of changes in the corporation tax system.
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Question reference: S4W-20668
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 April 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what information it provided to Oxford Economics to inform its report, The potential implications of independence for businesses in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-20666
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 April 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the Oxford Economics report, The potential implications of independence for businesses in Scotland, whether it will reconsider its decision not to publish the cost of its policy on corporation tax for the first years of implementation.
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Question reference: S4W-20667
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 April 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the assessment in the Oxford Economics report, The potential implications of independence for businesses in Scotland, that its policy on corporation tax would take 10 to 15 years to pay for itself.
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Question reference: S4W-20509
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 April 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 28 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20327 by John Swinney on 1 April 2014, whether it will set out the figures underlying the assertion that “the vast majority of any higher tax revenues following any expansion in economic activity flow to Westminster” which was stated in the paper, Childcare and Labour Market Participation – Economic Analysis.
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Question reference: S4W-20503
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 April 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20327 by John Swinney on 1 April 2014, whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) a list of its estimates of the component tax revenue streams that contribute to the £700 million.
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Question reference: S4W-20500
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 April 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20327 by John Swinney on 1 April 2014, what estimate it has of the contribution to the £700 million from increases in receipts from (a) income tax, (b) national insurance, (c) VAT, (d) fuel duty, (e) excise duties and (f) other taxes.
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Question reference: S4W-20507
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 April 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20327 by John Swinney on 1 April 2014, whether the Council of Economic Advisers has been asked to consider the component revenue streams of the £700 million to ensure that the basis for the calculations is robust.
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