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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

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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Question reference: S4W-18042

Asked by: Alex Johnstone, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 13 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many households have received support from the scheme to fund the installation of home charging points for electric vehicles.

Question reference: S4W-18046

Asked by: Alex Johnstone, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 13 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether the Parliament campus has electric vehicle charging points.

Question reference: S4W-18043

Asked by: Alex Johnstone, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many government car service vehicles are electric.

Question reference: S4W-18044

Asked by: Alex Johnstone, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many of its buildings have electric vehicle charging points.

Question reference: S4O-02538

Asked by: Alex Johnstone, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the annual cost is of providing NHS services for visitors and temporary migrants to Scotland.

Question reference: S4O-02476

Asked by: Alex Johnstone, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many jobs will be directly created as a result of offshore wind farm developments.

Question reference: S4W-16940

Asked by: Alex Johnstone, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether an independent Scotland would set a financial cap for welfare payments and, if so, what level this would be set at; what the timescale would be for its introduction; what annual savings it would bring, and how many people it would affect.

It will be for the first Scottish Government of an independent Scotland to decide welfare policy and whether and at what level a financial cap should be set. The household benefit cap currently set by the UK Government will affect around 4,600 households in Scotland when fully rolled out and 65% of these households contain children. Any cap set in future would need to take account of Scottish circumstances and the priority that successive Scottish governments have given to tackling child poverty.

Question reference: S4O-02415

Asked by: Alex Johnstone, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to provide support to take the Great Tapestry of Scotland to communities around the country.

Question reference: S4O-02395

Asked by: Alex Johnstone, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what recent action it has taken to reduce waiting times at accident and emergency departments.

Question reference: S4O-02364

Asked by: Alex Johnstone, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of court capacity following the implementation of its court closures policy.