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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 17 December 2025
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Question reference: S1W-13737

  • Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 13 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what payments its core and associated departments and its agencies made for the rental or lease of properties in each year for which figures are available.

Question reference: S1W-13739

  • Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 13 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the contingent liabilities entered into by its core and associated departments and its agencies, specifying the amount involved in each.

Question reference: S1W-13738

  • Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 13 March 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the amount of value added tax paid from the Scottish budget was in each year for which figures are available, in total and broken into the amount paid by each of its core and associated departments and each of its agencies.

Question reference: S1W-13184

  • Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 21 February 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-2801 by Mr Alasdair Morrison on 18 January 2001, whether it will list all of the official correspondence it has received on plans to invest in town centre development in Cumbernauld and Kilsyth.

Question reference: S1W-12359

  • Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 6 February 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how much (a) each parliamentary constituency and (b) each local authority area received in lottery funding during the 12 months to 31 December 2000.

Question reference: S1O-02850

  • Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 25 January 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive in what circumstances it has a continuing responsibility for the standard of houses previously sold by government bodies.

Question reference: S1W-11086

  • Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 30 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-357 by Mr Jack McConnell on 20 September 1999, whether it will (a) provide an up-to-date list of the public sector capital projects involving private finance (i) completed, (ii) planned and (iii) underway, giving both the start and estimated completion dates; (b) detail the total estimated capital investment included in the projects; (c) detail the annual public expenditure required to service these projects in both cash and real terms for each year of the life of the projects, and (d) give the total lifetime cost of the projects, shown individually and by sector in both cash and real terms.

Question reference: S1O-02622

  • Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 30 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what the difference was in per capita health spending between Scotland and England in 1997-98 and what it will be by the year 2003-04.

Question reference: S1W-08423

  • Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 June 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 20 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what the total amount of money raised by water and sewerage charges (a) in Scotland and (b) in each water authority area (i) was in each year for which figures are available and (ii) will be in each year for which estimates are available, specified in cash and real terms in each case.

Question reference: S1O-02551

  • Asked by: Andrew Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 16 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive why the level of health spending in Scotland is rising less rapidly than in England.