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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 May 2025
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Question reference: S1W-21613

  • Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20574 by Lewis Macdonald on 3 January 2002, how many road accidents resulting in deaths have occurred on trunk roads in the Central Scotland police area in each of the last four years.

Question reference: S1W-21612

  • Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20852 by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 December 2001, who the members of the rural areas maternity service provision sub-group are, when the sub-group will be expected to report and whether any such report will be made public.

Question reference: S1W-21570

  • Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive with regard to its news release SE3061/2001 of 7 September 2001, what opportunities were made available to the public and other external parties to give views as part of the consultation on the role of the proposed Forth Estuary Transportation Authority.

Question reference: S1W-21569

  • Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive with regard to its news release SE3061/2001 of 7 September 2001, which organisations were consulted on the role of the proposed Forth Estuary Transportation Authority and when the consultation period ended.

Question reference: S1W-21578

  • Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 January 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is anticipating any delay to the centralisation in Perth of the Environmental and Rural Affairs Department offices of Dundee, Stirling or Forfar and, if so, what the financial implications of any such delay will be.

Question reference: S1W-19009

  • Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether all of the #10 million announced by the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs on 6 August 2001 has now been allocated to schools and whether any local authorities have altered the criteria for distributing the money to schools in their area.

Question reference: S1W-21402

  • Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 18 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-18999 by Allan Wilson on 17 December 2001, what research has been commissioned into the likely impact on traffic flows which the creation of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park will have on (a) the A82 between Balloch and Crianlarich, (b) the A811 between Drymen and Balloch and (c) local authority maintained roads within the proposed park boundaries.

Question reference: S1W-21403

  • Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 18 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what research has been commissioned into the likely impact which the creation of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park will have on tourist visitor numbers to the area.

Question reference: S1W-20774

  • Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 14 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7052 by Sarah Boyack on 19 June 2000, what the (a) net revenue expenditure on roads maintenance and (b) gross capital expenditure on the structural maintenance of roads were in respect of each local authority in 2000-01.

Question reference: S1W-20861

  • Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 10 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 11 January 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20218 by Nicol Stephen on 6 December 2001, on which dates the annual recurrent grant for St Mary's Episcopal Primary School in Dunblane was determined in each of the last four years.