Questions and answers
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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Question reference: S4O-05710
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2016
- Current Status: Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated value of e-commerce sales was in 2014 and 2015.
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Question reference: S4O-05504
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 January 2016
- Current Status: Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Government what the priorities are for the housing supply budget in 2016-17.
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Question reference: S4O-05227
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2015
- Current Status: Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the condition of the Forth Road Bridge.
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Question reference: S4O-04876
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
- Current Status: Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to publish its full analysis of the risk of Office for National Statistics reclassification for universities for the proposed Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Bill.
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Question reference: S4W-28315
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide a list of the 20 companies in Scotland with the largest e-commerce sales.
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Question reference: S4W-28313
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) Scottish Enterprise and (b) Scottish Development International has a plan in place to help Scottish companies trade via e-commerce and, if so, whether it is publicly available.
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Question reference: S4W-28316
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20726 by John Swinney on 7 May 2014, whether the methodology for estimating the value of e-commerce sales has since changed.
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Question reference: S4W-28319
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many training courses focused on e-commerce there are in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-28314
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated value of e-commerce sales was in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014.
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Question reference: S4W-28318
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated value of e-commerce sales by companies account managed by Scottish Enterprise was in each of the last four quarters.