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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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Question reference: S1W-24846

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it requested that a separate company by guarantee be established to succeed Railtrack in Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-24845

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what shareholding it will have in the company limited by guarantee that will succeed Railtrack.

Question reference: S1W-24848

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will be able to give directions and guidance to the company limited by guarantee that will replace Railtrack and, if so, under what terms and circumstances; whether such directions and guidance will be subject to veto and, if so, by whom.

Question reference: S1W-24844

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions regarding the company limited by guarantee that will succeed Railtrack.

Question reference: S1W-24332

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether road congestion has decreased or increased in each of the last five years and, if there has been an increase, to what extent the level of road works has contributed to that increase.

Estimates of traffic growth vary, but the long term trends suggest an increase in traffic volume on major roads between 1990 and 2000 of around 16%. The aim of Reducing Disruption from Utilities' Road Works - A Consultation Paper is to evaluate the extent to which utilities companies roadworks caused disruption to road users and to identify steps that could be taken to alleviate any problems. In addition, the Executive recently commissioned a research project, Assessing the Effectiveness Of Utility Company Roadworks. Copies of the research, which is expected to report in May, will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.

Question reference: S1W-24331

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive why local authorities and highway agencies are exempt from the proposals set out in Reducing Disruption from Utilities' Road Works - A Consultation Paper.

Question reference: S1W-24333

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria it will use to assess the potential impact on its information technology policies, as set out in Connecting Scotland: our broadband future, of the proposals set out in Reducing Disruption from Utilities' Road Works - A Consultation Paper.

The Executive's consultation paper Reducing Disruption from Utilities' Road Works invited comments on disruption from road works carried out by utility companies and asked for suggestions on how to alleviate any perceived problems. Once the responses to this consultation paper have been analysed, we will be in a better position to assess whether there are any such problems, and their scale. Thereafter, we will consider what action might be appropriate.

Question reference: S1W-24334

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria it will use to assess the potential impact on social exclusion of the proposals set out in Reducing Disruption from Utilities' Road Works - a Consultation Paper.

Question reference: S1W-24346

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what bilateral meetings have taken place between its Transport Division and Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Division to discuss Reducing Disruption from Utilities' Road Works - A Consultation Paper.

Question reference: S1W-23972

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 11 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 15 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SE1903/2000 of 28 June 2000, what role it has played in the allocation and distribution of funding for post offices in deprived urban areas; how much funding has been made available; whether any further funding will be made available and, if so, (a) when, (b) by whom and (c) on what criteria such funding (i) was or (ii) will be distributed.