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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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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 1 July 2025
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Question reference: S3W-40327

  • Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 07 March 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-39548 by Keith Brown on 3 March 2011, on how many occasions ScotRail has been penalised for failing to provide (a) the planned capacity on services and (b) adequate cleanliness on trains and what penalties were imposed, in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S3W-39685

  • Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how the wheelchair and seating services modernisation programme will use goal attainment scaling to identify unmet need, particularly for those people who would benefit from attendant-controlled powered wheelchairs but do not meet the criteria for the pilot.

Question reference: S3W-39686

  • Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what commitment there is to fund the wheelchair and seating services modernisation programme after the current funding commitment expires.

Question reference: S3W-39550

  • Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are employed in dismantling offshore structures and installations and whether it has projections of the number of people likely to be so employed in the next five years

Question reference: S3W-39548

  • Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 3 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions it has had with UK transport ministers and officials anent the introduction of financial penalties in respect of train operators failing to deal with (a) overcrowding and (b) dirty trains

Question reference: S3W-39547

  • Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions have taken place with UK and other EU fisheries ministers concerning the curtailment of the harvesting of bluefin tuna by fishing vessels registered in EU ports

Question reference: S3W-39552

  • Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has discussed proposals for the fisheries research vessel, Scotia, to take on fisheries protection surveillance operations

Question reference: S3W-39546

  • Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has regarding any recent communications to EU fisheries ministers by the International Commission for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tunas and other such bodies anent the likelihood of the extinction of the Atlantic bluefin tuna

Question reference: S3W-39551

  • Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 23 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the implications are of reductions in public expenditure for those voluntary organisations and charities that deal with the care and rehabilitation of veterans

Question reference: S3W-39549

  • Asked by: Trish Godman, MSP for West Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 23 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether information is held centrally anent the number of properties built or adapted to rehouse disabled veterans in the last three years