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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 5 July 2025
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Question reference: S1W-31934

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 25 November 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 9 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities with coastal boundaries have oil pollution contingency plans and whether these plans specifically address an incident of the scale of the sinking of the Prestige off Spain on 19 November 2002.

Question reference: S1W-31874

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 5 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its policies are for the protection of rare invertebrate fauna, particularly in relation to development proposals likely to lead to national or local extinction of a species.

Question reference: S1W-31872

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 5 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many sites in Scotland the bog bush-cricket has been recorded; where these sites are located, and what policies are in place, in both national or local biodiversity action plans, to secure its conservation.

Question reference: S1W-31873

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 5 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any sites on which bog bush-crickets have been recorded have been designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest or receive protection under any other national or international legislation and, if no such sites have been designated, what directions or guidance it has provided to Scottish Natural Heritage in relation to site protection measures for this species and other rare invertebrate fauna.

Question reference: S1O-06031

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 November 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 5 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to take forward its consultation on governance and accountability in the further education sector.

Question reference: S1W-31422

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 08 November 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Simpson on 26 November 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what emergency planning measures have been put in place for incidents involving nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines and ships and whether it will make details of any such measures publicly available.

Question reference: S1W-31391

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 November 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make available any economic assessments carried out on the proposed western peripheral route around Aberdeen, including assessments by enterprise companies.

Question reference: S1W-31426

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 08 November 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 20 November 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what incentives there are for local authorities and NHS boards to implement the recommendations set out in The same as you? and what action will be taken if they do not do so.

Question reference: S1W-31287

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 20 November 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any local authorities have been approached by British Energy to request deferment of payment of its business rates for the operation of its nuclear power stations or other facilities; if so, which local authorities are considering, or have agreed, to defer these rates, and what the estimated loss in revenue and interest would be to each local authority in the event of (a) the rates being deferred for (i) one month, (ii) six months and (iii) one year and (b) British Energy not being able to pay back the rates.

Question reference: S1W-30534

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 October 2002
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 November 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any recent eviction from a chalet on the Drimsynie Estate near Lochgoilhead and, if so, what its response is.