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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Session 6: 13 May 2021 to 8 April 2026
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Question reference: S1W-18138

  • Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 27 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the additional resources for drug rehabilitation announced by the Minister for Finance and Local Government on 28 June 2001 will be used for rapid detoxification programmes.

Question reference: S1W-18133

  • Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 27 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Thin Prep Pap test has been proven to be both cost and clinically effective.

Question reference: S1W-18153

  • Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 27 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are proposals to use the Thin Prep Pap test to screen simultaneously for human papilloma virus, chlamydia and cervical cancer.

Question reference: S1O-03855

  • Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 27 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are currently on NHS patient waiting lists.

Question reference: S1W-18142

  • Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 26 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that clear protocols and guidance on the dispensing of methadone are established.

Question reference: S1W-18139

  • Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 26 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to establish additional drug detoxification facilities.

Question reference: S1W-17566

  • Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 16 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what resources are currently devoted to the diagnosis, treatment and community care of schi'ophrenic patients.

Question reference: S1W-17572

  • Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 16 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been prescribed ben'odia'epines for (a) more than one year, (b) more than two years, (c) more than five years and (d) more than 10 years.

Question reference: S1W-17766

  • Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of subsidy allocated to Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd was in the current financial year and whether it intends to increase this amount.

Question reference: S1W-17762

  • Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what legal advice it has received on whether Udal law takes precedence over Scottish Parliament legislation in Orkney and Shetland.