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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 4 May 2021
  6. Session 6: 13 May 2021 to 8 April 2026
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Question reference: S1W-16634

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 9 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will instruct those public bodies for which it is responsible to discontinue the use of paper products produced by Asia Pulp and Paper.

Question reference: S1W-16225

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 11 June 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 2 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what process and what criteria have been used to appoint the managing agents of its central heating installation programme.

Question reference: S1W-16224

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 11 June 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 2 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce who will be the managing agents of its central heating installation programme.

Question reference: S1W-16226

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 11 June 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 2 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what fee will be paid to the managing agents of its central heating installation programme.

Question reference: S1W-16231

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 11 June 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 28 June 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how businesses apply for a grant under the Powershift programme.

Question reference: S1W-16230

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 11 June 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 28 June 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many companies received grants under the Powershift programme in 2000-01 and to date in 2001-02.

Question reference: S1W-16229

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 11 June 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 28 June 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been made available for the Powershift programme in the current financial year.

Question reference: S1W-13929

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 March 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 11 June 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the terms of the Statement of Practice on Staff Transfers in the Public Sector regarding the protection of occupational pensions were included in the contracts for maintenance and management of trunk roads.

Question reference: S1W-13930

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 March 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 5 June 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken in relation to recent reports that BEAR Scotland Ltd may not be acting in accordance with the terms of the Statement of Practice on Staff Transfers in the Public Sector regarding the protection of occupational pensions of staff transferring employers as a result of the recent tendering exercise for the maintenance and management of trunk roads.

Question reference: S1W-13686

  • Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 26 February 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 5 June 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the new trunk roads maintenance contracts specify that pension schemes offered by the new contractors to transferred employees under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) legislation are final salary pension schemes.