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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 14 August 2025
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Question reference: S1W-18453

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 5 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how the development of aggregated broadband procurement for the public sector, as outlined in Connecting Scotland: our broadband future, will be affected by the Government Secure Internet and any related tendering process.

Question reference: S1W-18451

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 5 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the recommendations of Section 4 of Connecting Scotland: our broadband future, whether it has any plans to introduce, or support the introduction of, compulsory sharing of capacity by cable and local loop suppliers with other tendering organisations.

Question reference: S1W-18449

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 5 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the report Connecting Scotland; our broadband future, whether the responsibility for upgrading existing services will lie with local telecommunications companies; if so, how they will be financed and by whom and, if not, with whom the responsibility will lie.

Question reference: S1W-18305

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 4 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what its strategy is for the development of the construction industry.

Question reference: S1W-18303

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 4 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how much in financial support was paid in total to students under 18 enrolled in (a) further and (b) higher education in each of the past three years.

Question reference: S1W-18307

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 4 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it or any of its agencies or non-departmental public bodies have undertaken into the economic impact of the establishment of the Parliament; what the conclusions were of any such assessments and, if no assessments have been undertaken, what plans exist for one.

Question reference: S1W-18300

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many offences involving the (a) possession, (b) presentation and (c) use of imitation firearms there were in (i) Scotland and (ii) each police force area in each of the past three years.

Question reference: S1W-18309

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 4 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail any funding, including regional development grants, which was given to BAE Systems to attract them to establish a plant at Bishopton.

Question reference: S1W-18302

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 4 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to bring arrangements for financial support, including bursary entitlement and the means test for parental contributions for students under 18 in further education, in line with the support for parentally dependent students in higher education.

Question reference: S1W-18301

  • Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many offences involving the possession or use of knives there were in (a) Scotland and (b) each police force area in each of the past three years.