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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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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 4 July 2025
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Question reference: S2W-10220

  • Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 21 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider a transitional support scheme, similar to that offered following the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, to encourage businesses to join a tourism registration scheme for quality assurance.

Question reference: S2W-10026

  • Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Fife Constabulary has incurred costs associated with royal protection duties and, if so, what these costs have been and how they have been met.

Question reference: S2W-10108

  • Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has conducted, or plans to conduct, a telephone survey of perceptions of crime levels and, if so, to whom it has awarded a contract for such a survey and whether it will publish the results.

Question reference: S2W-10024

  • Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive when the review of police funding will be published and what level of detail will be available to ensure public scrutiny of the data collected.

Question reference: S2W-10022

  • Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive when the review of police funding will be completed.

Question reference: S2W-10025

  • Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to collect data on the cost of national policing activities, such as royal protection duties, policing of the Parliament and offshore policing, centrally.

Question reference: S2W-10023

  • Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the costs of national policing activities such as royal protection duties and offshore policing were considered as part of the police funding review.

Question reference: S2W-10027

  • Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Lothian and Borders Constabulary has incurred costs associated with the policing of the Parliament and, if so, what these costs have been and how they have been met.

Question reference: S2W-10110

  • Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it (a) has and (b) can delegate the authority to access ex-directory telephone numbers as part of any telephone survey work that it commissions.

Question reference: S2W-10109

  • Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has considered the use of automated dialling systems in any telephone survey contracts that it awards.