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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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Question reference: S1W-17847

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 in how many cases the Scottish Qualifications Authority has failed to notify universities or colleges of potential undergraduates' results in the 2001 diet of results and how it proposes to address these cases.

Specific arrangements in connection with exam results and appeals are a matter for the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), and I will ask the Chair to write to you with a more detailed response to your query.

The SQA does not pass results directly to higher education institutions but via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). Prior to the issue of this summer's exam results, UCAS notified the SQA of the results that it would require for onward transmission to higher education institutions. The SQA supplied results to UCAS for those candidates on 4 August, three days ahead of schedule.

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: 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-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-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-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.

Question reference: S1W-18001

Asked by: Colin Campbell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2001
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 25 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates since 1999 local authorities and emergency services have carried out nuclear emergency drills in co-operation with UK agencies and where any such drills were carried out.

The following is a list of nuclear exercises since 1999 in which the emergency services, local authorities and other UK agencies have participated.

Date	Exercise Location	Civil/Military
1999
2 June	Faslane	Military
1 September	Campbeltown/Faslane	Military
2 October	Vulcan,Dounreay/Inverness	Military
20 October	Hunterston B/East Kilbride	Civilian
26 October	Rosyth/Glenrothes	Military/Civilian
9 December	Chapelcross/Dumfries	Civilian
2000
4 May	Faslane	Military
10 May	Dounreay/Inverness	Civilian
13 June	Vulcan, Dounreay/Inverness	Military
14 June	Scottish Police College, Tulliallan	Civilian
6 September	Faslane	Military
18 September	Torness (Communications only)	Civilian
26 September	Rosyth/Glenrothes	Military/Civilian
9 November	Torness/Cockenzie	Civilian
2001
31 May	Vulcan, Dounreay/Inverness	Military
14 June	Rothesay/Faslane	Military
20 June	Hunterston/Irvine	Civilian
27 June	Coulport/Faslane	Military
6 September	Faslane	Military
10 October	Rosyth/Glenrothes	Military/Civilian

Note: Where two locations are shown, the first is the postulated locus of the incident and the second is the location of the established/nearest off-site centre (OSC) from where the incident is managed.

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-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.