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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 4 May 2021
  6. Session 6: 13 May 2021 to 8 April 2026
  7. Current session: 14 May 2026 to 4 August 2026
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Question reference: S1W-04781

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 31 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each pound it spends on neighbourhood watch and similar crime prevention methods saves the criminal justice system.

Question reference: S1W-04663

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 31 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each parliamentary constituency received in lottery funding for the last year for which figures are available.

Question reference: S1W-02603

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 November 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 30 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive when the review of infertility services in Scotland will be published.

Question reference: S1W-06807

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 12 May 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 30 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will guarantee that any properties to be demolished after the Glasgow housing stock transfer will be demolished because they are beyond repair rather than because of the value of the land on which they are built.

Question reference: S1W-03060

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 December 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive which Scottish hospitals have removed organs from dead children without parental consent in financial years 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99 and currently.

Question reference: S1W-03259

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to raise awareness of prostate cancer.

Question reference: S1W-06502

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 23 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what number of assaults on staff was reported in each of the Greater Glasgow Health Board hospitals in each of the last four years for which figures are available.

Question reference: S1W-05906

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 22 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to firms awarded more than #1 million public assistance since 1 April 1989, how many jobs were promised by the inward investor in each case; how many jobs were created at the time of the highest development of the project in each case; how many jobs existed in each companies at 1 April 2000; what the length of stay in Scotland was in each case, and how many of these companies left Scotland after initially locating there.

Question reference: S1W-05914

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what the capital investment in council housing was in real terms in each of the last five years for which figures are available, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S1W-06244

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 April 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 19 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much housing capital borrowing consent was given to Glasgow in each year from 1990-91 to 1999-2000 inclusive in real terms.