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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 20 June 2025
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Question reference: S2W-23552

  • Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how it has measured the success of direct payments since the implementation of the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002.

Question reference: S2W-23548

  • Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many community care assessments were carried out in each year since 1999 for disabled people seeking direct payments, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S2W-21565

  • Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 09 December 2005
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19463 by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 October 2005, what funding has been allocated to Perth and Kinross Council from (a) the Vacant and Derelict Land Fund and (b) capital resources made available to carry out identification and remediation of contaminated land; whether Perth and Kinross Council was one of the 19 local authorities allocated end-year flexibility funding in December 2004 for specific derelict and contaminated land projects and, if so, how much it received.

Question reference: S2W-20588

  • Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 11 November 2005
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Health and Community Care will report to the Parliament on the outcome of the deliberations of the Stakeholder Advisory Group ELF EMF.

Question reference: S2W-20587

  • Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 11 November 2005
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive who represents its Health Department at meetings of the Stakeholder Advisory Group ELF EMF; how many meetings there have been; how many meetings have been attended by its representatives, and what issues were discussed at each of the meetings.

Question reference: S2W-20589

  • Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 11 November 2005
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 22 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the outcome of the deliberations of the Stakeholder Advisory Group ELF EMF will be taken into consideration when the proposed Beauly to Denny transmission line comes before the Executive for a planning decision.

Question reference: S2W-20590

  • Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 11 November 2005
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-19573 and S2W-19572 by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 and 19 October 2005, how many new homes will be approved under the Homestake shared equity scheme in the Perth and Kinross Council area in 2005-06 and 2007-08.

Question reference: S2W-20569

  • Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 November 2005
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration is being given to extending protection to volunteers to give them some of the rights of employees in difficult situations with voluntary sector management.

Question reference: S2W-19713

  • Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 October 2005
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many requests have been received by Disclosure Scotland since its inception to provide criminal record checks on individuals from (a) Scotland, (b) the rest of the United Kingdom, (c) the rest of the European Union and (d) non-EU countries.

Question reference: S2W-19710

  • Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 October 2005
  • Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 3 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports of (a) murder, (b) culpable homicide, (c) assault to severe injury, (d) assault and (e) offences involving the possession of a bladed weapon have been referred to the Procurator Fiscal in Perth in each of the last five years.