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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-05244

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 24 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the projected passenger use studies relating to the City of Edinburgh Rapid Transport scheme (CERT) and, if no such studies are available, what it understands CERT's projected passenger use to be.

Question reference: S1W-05242

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 24 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish any plans and documentation it holds or has received relating to the City of Edinburgh Rapid Transport scheme.

Question reference: S1W-05241

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 24 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to bring forward a Bill on strategic environmental assessment.

Question reference: S1W-05256

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 24 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-3535 by Sarah Boyack on 28 February 2000, whether it will provide details of any guidelines for operators regarding joint pricing and ticketing initiatives.

Question reference: S1W-05254

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 24 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to extend the Fuel Duty Rebate scheme to post buses.

Question reference: S1W-04715

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail for each year since 1995 (a) the costs of the Lingerbay Inquiry, (b) the number of its staff engaged in the consideration of the report and (c) the associated staff costs.

The costs, up to April 1999, of the Reporter and support staff costs, hire of inquiry venue, travel and subsistence and advertisement of the inquiry arrangements were £162,800. The annual costs are set out below. It is not possible, however, to separate the number of staff engaged in the consideration of the report and their costs from general departmental running costs.

1994-June 1995 (end of public local inquiry)	£75,300
July-December 1995	£10,000
1996	£20,000
1997	£32,000
1998	£20,000
1999	£ 5,500

Question reference: S1W-04632

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it is making to the multi-modal study on the M74 regarding the possible effects on employment in Glasgow of traffic congestion and to provide details of these representations.

Question reference: S1W-04515

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the rail network is electrified and when the last area of the network was electrified.

Question reference: S1W-04630

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has information regarding the number of road accidents involving foreign tourists travelling on the road network and to detail the accidents and their localities.

Question reference: S1W-04507

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 20 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the new Joint Board for the Forth Road Bridge will have powers to fund and support ferry services.

As the Executive announced in publishing its proposals for the Integrated Transport Bill on 10 February, the new Joint Board for the Forth will have wider powers to fund public transport alternatives relating to the Forth crossings. The Executive will be consulting relevant local authorities and other interested parties on the scope of these wider powers, including whether they shall extend to the support of ferry services.