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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: S4O-01001

Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 May 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with COSLA and local authorities about the reducing availability of supply teachers in certain areas.

Question reference: S4O-00920

Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review the grounds of appeal process for those seeking Chartered Teacher status.

Question reference: S4F-00606

Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 April 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 April 2012

To ask the First Minister what recent discussions the Scottish Government has had with NHS Ayrshire and Arran about allegations of criminal deception by members of its staff.

Question reference: S4O-00743

Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve rail services in the west of Scotland.

Question reference: S4O-00712

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S4W-05133

Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 3 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have received incorrect home energy reports from the Energy Saving Trust as a result of a computer malfunction and when the problem will be resolved.

To date, the Energy Saving Trust have received around 90 complaints from customers about obvious inaccuracies in their Home Energy Checks (HECs) that are due primarily to the computer malfunction. This is out of a total of 54,000 HECs issued.

The problem, which relates to paper HECs scanned and uploaded in the last few weeks only, has already been identified and the contractor responsible for the computer system is taking steps to resolve it. The EST have in the meantime stopped processing paper HECs until they receive confirmation that the problem has been resolved. They will then send updated reports, with a letter of explanation, to all those whose Home Energy Report was significantly in error. We expect that normal service will have resumed by the week commencing 6 February 2012.

Question reference: S4W-04972

Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 13 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 24 January 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to abolish the Home Report system.

Question reference: S4W-05036

Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 January 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many times police officers have raided domestic homes in error since 2007.

Question reference: S4O-00531

Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the UK Government has replied to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice's letter of 1 December 2011 regarding the Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Bill.

Question reference: S4W-04299

Asked by: John Scott, MSP for Ayr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making in discussing a Victims and Witnesses Bill with stakeholders.