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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: S4W-22074

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 5 August 2014

To ask the Scottish Government which tax reliefs it would streamline in the event of independence.

Question reference: S4W-22098

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 5 August 2014

E-commerce sales were estimated at £31 billion in 2010 through a methodology that adjusted UK level data on the basis of Scotland's share of UK employees in each of the sectors that contributed to the overall assessment of e-commerce sales.

a) The estimated figure for e-commerce sales in 2010 was not updated for 2011.

b) Using the same methodology used to generate the 2010 figure, the estimate of Scotland's total e-commerce sales in 2012 was £38 billion.

(c) The 2014 digital survey will be able to provide an estimated value for sales via the internet for surveyed companies for 2013-14. This will be included in the headline findings for the digital survey that are due to be published in September 2014.

Question reference: S4W-22096

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 5 August 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether it undertook a comprehensive digital economy business survey in June 2014.

Question reference: S4W-22071

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 5 August 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the target revenue gain of £250 million, referred to on page 79 of its white paper on independence, will come from (a) reduced compliance costs, (b) streamlining reliefs and (c) reduced tax avoidance.

Question reference: S4W-22075

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 5 August 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how much revenue gain will occur from each of the tax reliefs that it would streamline in the event of independence.

Question reference: S4W-21931

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 June 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 July 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether it still estimates that a capital budget equivalent of £185 million was delivered on the ground in 2013-14 by projects under the non-profit distributing (NPD) model.

Question reference: S4W-21932

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 June 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 July 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether it still estimates that a capital budget equivalent of £809 million will be delivered on the ground in 2014-15 by projects under the non-profit distributing (NPD) model.

Question reference: S4W-21930

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 June 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 July 2014

To ask the Scottish Government which projects under the non-profit distributing (NPD) model are at the construction stage.

The revenue funded projects currently at construction stage are:

Alford Academy, Aberdeenshire;

Ayrshire College (Kilmarnock Campus);

City of Glasgow College;

Inverness College;

James Gillespie’s High School, Edinburgh;

M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements;

NHS Ayrshire and Arran Acute Mental Health and North Ayrshire Community Hospital*;

NHS Grampian and NHS Highland Bundle - Forres, Woodside and Tain Health Facilities; and

NHS Lanarkshire Bundle - Wishaw, East Kilbride and Kilsyth Health Centres.

*This project started construction after S4W-21743 was answered on 25 June 2014

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Question reference: S4W-22022

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 21 July 2014

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the item on a more internationally competitive Scotland was removed from the agenda for the Financial Services Advisory Board meeting that took place on 28 April 2014.

As indicated in the note of the Financial Services Advisory Board meeting on 28 April 2014 which is available on the Scottish Government website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/finance/meetings/FISABmeetings2014/FiSABApril2014noteofmeeting, the item on a more internationally competitive Scotland was removed from the agenda to enable a more comprehensive discussion to take place at a future meeting.

Question reference: S4W-22020

Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 21 July 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what (a) opportunities and (b) risks it considers would arise for the financial services industry in the event of Scottish independence.

Scotland has a successful and diverse financial services industry, with both Edinburgh and Glasgow recognised internationally as leading financial centres. With full access to the levers of growth, an independent Scotland will have the opportunity to further develop the industry, building on this position of strength. Scotland’s Future sets out our proposal for a consistent regulatory framework, to ensure the continuation of the existing highly integrated market for financial services across the sterling area. Firms will be able to continue to provide financial products and services to consumers in Scotland and the rest of the UK and to realise the benefits of this integrated market.