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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: S4O-03906

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 January 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 January 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to assist business start-ups.

Question reference: S4T-00884

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 05 January 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 January 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how the NHS is dealing with Ebola.

Question reference: S4O-03822

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 December 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what planning it is doing to keep the jobs and opportunities of decommissioning the oil and gas industry in Scotland.

Question reference: S4F-02461

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 December 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 December 2014

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government is doing to meet its national waiting time guarantees for gastroenterology.

Question reference: S4O-03749

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made on the Dundee Port Railhead as recommended in the Tactran strategy.

Question reference: S4O-03706

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the facilities being similar, what the reason is for the difference in the costs of building the Murray Royal, Gartnavel Royal and New Craigs psychiatric units.

Question reference: S4W-22804

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many title deeds have been defective in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S4W-22803

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of defective title deeds there have been in each year since 1999.

Title to land follows from either the recording of a deed in the Register of Sasines or the registration of the title in the Land Register of Scotland. The two registers currently hold around 2.5 million titles, and the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland keeps both registers.

A person affected by the registration of a title in the land register following a defective title deed may apply to the keeper for rectification of the title. The numbers of applications for rectification in the period from 1 April 2012, including applications by such persons, is as follows:

Period	Number of applications
1 April 2012 to 31 December 2012	549
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013	1260
1 January 2014 to 10 October 2014	1175

Question reference: S4O-03686

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 November 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many civil service jobs it has transferred to Dundee, or has established in the city, since 2007.

Question reference: S4W-22942

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 5 November 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many drug rehabilitation beds have been available in NHS Tayside in each year since 2007.