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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 5 May 2025
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Question reference: S1W-18623

  • Asked by: Mr Keith Harding, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 11 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it cost to launch, publish and distribute the Fisheries Research Services' Statistical Bulletin Scottish Salmon and Sea Trout Catches 2000 and how many copies of the document have been sold to the public.

Question reference: S1W-18222

  • Asked by: Mr Keith Harding, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 17 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail any implications for its plans to change the date of the next local authority elections arising from the incorporation of European Convention on Human Rights into Scots law.

Question reference: S1W-18374

  • Asked by: Mr Keith Harding, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 3 October 2001

To ask the Presiding Officer what the projected cost will be in (a) 2001-02, (b) 2002-03 and (c) 2003-04 of the Parliament's new child care voucher scheme which will be available to MSPs and staff.

Question reference: S1W-17851

  • Asked by: Mr Keith Harding, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 27 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many invitees attended the Budget Roadshows in (a) Kilmarnock and (b) Dundee.

Question reference: S1O-03826

  • Asked by: Mr Keith Harding, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 27 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to increase the number of visually impaired people voting in local elections.

Question reference: S1W-17884

  • Asked by: Mr Keith Harding, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 24 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of the DTZ Pieda research project on a community ownership information pack carried out on its behalf.

Question reference: S1W-17770

  • Asked by: Mr Keith Harding, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 24 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of local election polling stations do not have access for disabled people.

Question reference: S1W-17769

  • Asked by: Mr Keith Harding, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 24 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of local election polling stations have adjustable shelves for disabled people.

Question reference: S1W-17960

  • Asked by: Mr Keith Harding, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 19 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the total costs were of the publication, including the design, photocopying, printing, internet connection of text, distribution and launch, of Connecting Scotland: our broadband future.

Question reference: S1W-17929

  • Asked by: Mr Keith Harding, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-17365 and S1W-17678 by Sarah Boyack on 21 and 28 August 2001, what it is doing to reduce the number of personal injury accidents on the Tayport to Glenrothes part of the A92.