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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 18 July 2025
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Question reference: S2W-23197

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scotland has been fully funded in respect of EU allocations for Scottish regions and programmes under each previous funding settlement.

Question reference: S2W-23235

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what its understanding is in respect of what Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland data “should and should not be used for” as referred to by the UK National Statistician and Registrar General in his letter of 29 September 2004 to the Chief Statistician.

Question reference: S2W-23196

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any calculation in respect of the impact of the EU budget on future EU funding allocations through its block grant under the Barnett formula.

Question reference: S2W-23198

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what analysis it has made of the impact on its block grant of any EU funding reductions to English regions.

Question reference: S2W-23512

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what aspect of the Accounts Commission’s report, Argyll and Bute Council: The Audit of Best Value and Community Planning, gave the Scottish Executive most concern and what action it will take to address the situation.

Question reference: S2W-23234

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to ensure that users of Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland (GERS) data pass on in turn the caveats referred to by the UK National Statistician and Registrar General in respect of the “limitations of the data and the assumptions” and guidance about “what GERS should and should not be used for.”

Question reference: S2W-23204

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 7 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive why the introduction of aid of a social character to provide discounted travel between the highlands and islands and Scotland's major cities does not include residents on NHS-funded trips and what the saving would be for NHS Western Isles if these discounts were applied to such trips.

Question reference: S2W-23202

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 7 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that students originally resident on the islands or in Caithness will have access to the discounted air fares due to become available to island residents when travelling to or from their place of study.

Question reference: S2W-23453

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding it plans to make available to support the running costs of the upgraded facilities at Oban Airport.

Question reference: S2W-23412

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 2 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-22816 by Mr Tom McCabe on 21 February 2006, whether it will detail the specific measures it is taking to attract each of the following categories: (a) international students, (b) those looking for employment, (c) entrepreneurs interested in setting up businesses, (d) Scots living outwith Scotland who may consider returning to Scotland and (e) businesses who might benefit from the recruitment of workers from outwith Scotland.