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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: S3W-08524

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many times and on what dates since May 2007 the First Minister has stayed overnight at the Marcliffe of Pitfodels Hotel in Aberdeen in his official capacity.

Question reference: S3W-08362

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-7680 by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 January 2008, whether the specific legislation published at public expense in Annex B to the White Paper “Choosing Scotland’s Future” is within the legislative competence of the Parliament.

Question reference: S3W-08105

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive when it ceased to record telephone calls between ministers, civil servants and special advisers about matters of substance.

Question reference: S3W-08104

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline the advice provided by the Chief Planner and Head of Planning Decisions Division to the First Minister in his capacity as MSP for Gordon on 29 and 30 November 2007.

Officials offered verbaladvice to Mr Salmond, at his request, confirming that, as MSP for theconstituency where the development was proposed, he was entitled to representproperly the interests of his constituents and to speak to the developer and toany other relevant parties. They confirmed that his constituency interest meantthat Mr Salmond was debarred from any potential Scottish ministerial planningdecision. They also set out their understanding of the procedural implicationsof the resolution of Aberdeenshire Council’s Infrastructure Services Committee.

Question reference: S3W-08102

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth had any discussions with the First Minister on 3 December 2007 about the Trump planning application.

Question reference: S3W-08107

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive when the First Minister first became aware that the Trump planning application was being called in, by what means and from whom.

Question reference: S3W-08106

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether telephone calls placed from private offices are listed by extension number.

Question reference: S3W-08094

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Chief Planner has been placed under any pressure by ministers or MSPs in relation to calling in the Trump planning application.

Question reference: S3W-08085

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a formal record of the telephone call of 4 December 2007 between the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth and the Chief Planner about the call-in of the Trump planning application.

Question reference: S3W-08083

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether members of the Trump Organization were with the First Minister when he called the Chief Planner on 3 December 2007.