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.

Question reference: S1W-00073

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to take account of the potential combined impact on hospital services of "bed-blockers" and the anticipated increase in hospital admissions over the 1999-2000 New Year holiday period in its Milleniunm contingency planning.

Question reference: S1W-00184

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to extend the list of communities it will visit in its fact finding mission on poverty and deprivation, as announced by Ms Wendy Alexander in Scottish Office press release 1094/99.

Question reference: S1W-00101

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 30 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to address the drugs problem in Scotland.

Tackling Scotland's drugs problem is one of a number of priority areas the Scottish Executive has identified for cross-cutting action across departmental and other organisational boundaries. This broad based approach will embrace all the key areas including treatment, enforcement, rehabilitation, prevention and education as well as the links with the Executive's wider programme of social reform. A Ministerial Group will ensure a co-ordinated approach on tackling drugs, with integrated policy and integrated policy delivery, focusing on results. Scottish Ministers are committed in principle to the concept of a drugs enforcement agency and discussions are underway with the police about what form it should take.

Question reference: S1W-00041

Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 17 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive in the light of the proposed ending of the European Commission's scheme which supplies milk at reduced rates to school children (EC 3392/93), what plans does it have to adopt an equivalent scheme?

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