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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 31 December 2025
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Question reference: S3W-33025

  • Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals have been subject to a supervision order in which the grounds of referral were that they had committed an offence.

Question reference: S3W-33021

  • Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has published legal advice it issued to Disclosure Scotland in 2006 indicating that supervision orders in relation to which an offence had been committed should be disclosed on certificates.

Question reference: S3W-33022

  • Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether legal advice it issued to Disclosure Scotland in 2006 indicating that supervision orders in relation to which an offence had been committed should be disclosed on certificates has been challenged in court.

Question reference: S3W-33257

  • Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much time is spent teaching European history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2.

Question reference: S3W-33259

  • Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive in how many schools history is taught as a separate subject in (a) S1 and (b) S2 and how this compares with (i) two, (ii) four and (iii) eight years ago.

Question reference: S3W-33258

  • Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much time is spent teaching world history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2.

Question reference: S3W-33253

  • Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what information is held on the breadth of the history curriculum in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2, including the coverage of Scottish, British, European and world history, and the balance between those topics.

Question reference: S3W-33260

  • Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive in how many schools history is taught as part of a wider group of subjects, for example integrated in social studies, in (a) S1 and (b) S2 and how this compares with (i) two, (ii) four and (iii) eight years ago.

Question reference: S3W-33255

  • Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much time is spent teaching Scottish history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2.

Question reference: S3W-33256

  • Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much time is spent teaching British history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2.