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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 31 October 2024
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Question reference: S1W-00859

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 31 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to study the impact of Scottish film locations as a means of promoting tourism in Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-00519

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 31 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will be responding to the concerns of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Scotland relating to the transfer of lead ministerial responsibility for forestry from the Secretary of State for Scotland to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in London.

Question reference: S1W-00904

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 26 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make available to the Parliament copies of background papers on fisheries and related matters prepared for the Executive and, if so, whether it will make them available at the same time as they are made available to Ministers.

Question reference: S1W-00890

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 24 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive further to the answer to question S1W-367 by Donald Dewar on 2 July, whether it has now received the draft memorandum of understanding and supporting concordats from Her Majesty's Government, whether fisheries will be the subject of a separate concordat, and when the draft memorandum and concordats will be published and presented to the Parliament for endorsement.

Question reference: S1W-00861

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 24 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to record sales of fisheries quota, fishing licences, vessels and entitlement to fishing interests outwith Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-00888

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 24 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the fisheries schemes which have been administered for each of the last ten financial years, the amounts of funds allocated to each scheme for each financial year, the total number of applications received and the total number of successful applications made for each scheme.

Question reference: S1W-00867

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 24 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive who represented the Scottish Executive during any discussions relating to the memorandum of understanding and any supporting concordat relating to fisheries drawn by Her Majesty's Government; when these discussions took place; what the venue was for these discussions; whether any minutes were taken, and, if so, whether these minutes will be published.

Question reference: S1W-00868

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 24 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make funds available to the universities to develop products out of recyclable waste.

Question reference: S1W-00862

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 23 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to increase the level of funding dedicated to research into amnesic shellfish poisoning currently affecting the scallop fishery and whether it intends to investigate the disease testing regime, in particular the time-lag between testing and issuing of results.

Question reference: S1W-00860

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 23 August 1999

To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body intends to make available any assistance, financial or otherwise, for all-party parliamentary groups.