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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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Question reference: S1W-17843

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 27 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the planned guidelines on home schooling will be common to all education authorities.

Question reference: S1W-17848

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 27 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17501 by Sarah Boyack on 28 August 2001, when it expects to be in possession of the study into the alleviation of flooding at Blackstone Roundabout, Newark, Port Glasgow.

The Scottish Executive is now in possession of the study undertaken by Inverclyde Council. The study confirms that the main cause of flooding at this location is due to upstream problems with local watercourses that are the responsibility of Inverclyde Council. It also confirms that there are no defects in the road drainage system.

Measures to relieve flooding in the area have been identified and the council has confirmed that when completed these measures should reduce the likelihood of any encroachment of floodwater onto the A8 trunk road at Blackstone Roundabout, Newark, Port Glasgow.

Question reference: S1O-03834

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 September 2001
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of Waardenburg Syndrome have been identified in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S1W-18000

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2001
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has been consulted on the implications for devolved matters of any proposals to permit trains carrying radioactive waste to travel at more than 45 mph.

Question reference: S1W-17999

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2001
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17309 by Rhona Brankin on 21 August 2001, whether it is aware that Mellon Charles near Aultbea was sited as an example of a land storage site for cut-out submarine reactors in a report by Lancaster University for the Ministry of Defence.

Question reference: S1W-18059

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2001
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 25 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the current prison population is ex-service personnel.

Question reference: S1W-18060

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 25 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Her Majesty's Government on the number of ex-service personnel who are rough sleepers and what the outcome of any such representations was.

Question reference: S1W-18058

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2001
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 25 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether information held on prisoners includes details of their previous and existing employment.

Question reference: S1W-18056

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2001
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of treatment of Gulf War veterans was to the NHS in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01 and (c) to date in 2001-02.

Question reference: S1W-18057

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 September 2001
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what statistics are held within the NHS on the incidence of leukaemia amongst patients who served in the Gulf War.