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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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  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
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Question reference: S2W-30360

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 21 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30020 by Tavish Scott on 4 December 2006, on what dates since 30 September 2005 the “various written and oral exchanges” between the Executive and Western Ferries on matters relating to the Gourock to Dunoon ferry service took place.

Question reference: S2W-30216

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 21 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any European regulations that would prevent multiple interventions, such as both a public service obligation and aid of a social character, being applied on any one transport route.

Question reference: S2W-30262

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 21 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any meetings or correspondence with any ferry operators since January 2004 regarding a possible foot-passenger-only ferry service between Gourock and Dunoon and, if so, on what dates any such (a) meetings took place and (b) correspondence was exchanged.

Question reference: S2O-11538

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 21 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any progress in identifying the cost of achieving the savings attributed to the Efficient Government initiative and whether it now has baseline outcome data to measure the impact that these savings have had on departmental performance.

Question reference: S2W-30414

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 19 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the timescale is for the repayment of PFI/PPP project debts, showing the annual cash flow required to meet these commitments over the life of each contract, broken down by NHS board, local authority or other body that authorised the projects.

Question reference: S2W-30068

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 14 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Transport will explore the suggestion by the Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform, reported in the Press and Journal on 21 November 2006, that “the air discount scheme is a model which needs to be examined further in the context of ferry fares”; whether the Executive is investigating the application of a similar discount scheme to any of Scotland’s ferry routes, and how such a scheme could be implemented, in light of the answer to question S2W-23204 by Tavish Scott on 7 March 2006 indicating that under the European Union state aid rules “aid of a social character” cannot be combined with other types of aid or assistance and of the list of exclusions from the air discount scheme included in the Executive’s press release of 13 February 2006 which indicate that current public service obligation routes are excluded on the grounds that European regulation does not allow multiple forms of aid on one route.

Question reference: S2W-29979

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 4 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in discussions with the UK Government on reform of statistics, it has secured guarantees of Scottish representation on the board of the proposed non-departmental public body responsible for statistics and, if so, what percentage of such a board will be representatives of Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-29982

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 4 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will lodge a legislative consent motion in the Scottish Parliament in relation to the UK Statistics and Registration Services Bill.

Question reference: S2W-30020

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 4 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions and correspondence it has had with Western Ferries since 30 September 2005 in relation to the Gourock to Dunoon ferry market.

Question reference: S2W-29975

  • Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 30 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whom it consulted before determining that it will participate in the new arrangements being put in place for the production and independence of statistics at UK level.