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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 16 May 2025
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Question reference: S1W-26491

  • Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 20 June 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many affordable houses for rent it calculates will be needed over the next decade to (a) meet the needs of emerging and concealed households and (b) replace below tolerable standard stock and other stock liable to be closed, demolished or taken out of use.

Question reference: S1W-26355

  • Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 27 May 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 17 June 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much compensation it has paid in cash and real terms in each of the last five years in response to claims made in respect of deficient road maintenance, broken down by individual trunk road.

Question reference: S1W-25823

  • Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Elaine Murray on 23 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will issue a decision on listed building application South Ayrshire 01/00767/LBC (Frognal House, Troon) and whether the time taken to reach a decision accords with Historic Scotland's targets for determining such applications.

Question reference: S1W-24752

  • Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 April 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24007 by Lewis Macdonald on 25 March 2002, whether it will issue a similar profile of the spending to 2005-06 on motorway and trunk road repairs and maintenance, identifying all Private Finance Initiative/Public Private Partnership (PFI/PPP) payments separately and profile any level playing field support payments in the same period in respect of any local authority PFI/PPP schemes for roads projects.

Question reference: S1W-24754

  • Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 April 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24010 by Lewis Macdonald on 3 April 2002, whether the guidance issued by the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions indicates whether it is allowable to aggregate roads projects on a single corridor, such as the A75, to lift the value of the combined schemes above the threshold at which they would all become eligible for Trans-European Network (TEN) funding.

Question reference: S1W-24753

  • Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 April 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 May 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-655 by Mr Jack McConnell on 6 September 1999, whether it will detail the (a) capital and revenue expenditure in each year since 1996-97, (b) estimated outturn in capital and revenue expenditure in 2001-02, and (c) budgeted expenditure in 2002-03, on roads and transportation by each local authority, in (i) cash and (ii) real terms.

Question reference: S1W-24011

  • Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 11 March 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 23 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it gives to local authorities on (a) the circumstances in which it is appropriate for the transfer of revenue balances or capital reserves between their Housing Revenue Accounts and General Funds and (b) the extent of charges to Housing Revenue Accounts for services provided to them by central departments.

Question reference: S1W-24012

  • Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 11 March 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 16 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Provisional Outturn and Budget Estimates, or any other returns by local authorities, identify (a) planned or (b) actual transfers of balances or reserves between local authorities' Housing Revenue Accounts and General Funds; whether such transfers are subject to the permission of the Scottish Ministers, and whether it will give details, using current prices, of all such transfers approved by ministers or reported by local authorities, in respect of each authority, for each year since the current local authorities came into existence.

Question reference: S1W-24324

  • Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15440 by Sarah Boyack on 11 May 2001, whether the cost of the M74 northern extension will still be allocated in the same proportions as indicated in that answer; whether a procurement method for the project has been selected; what the latest estimated cost of the project is, and what the projected date is for the commencement of the project.

Question reference: S1W-24326

  • Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 4 April 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what priority was originally attached to each trunk road improvement project identified in the Route Action Plan (RAP) for the A77 South of Ayr and whether any of these projects have been (a) abandoned (b) substantially amended or (c) re-programmed as a result of the recent review of the RAP.