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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-04922

Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 December 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 9 December 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the UK Government and Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire councils regarding the proposal for an Aberdeen city region deal.

Question reference: S4W-28644

Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 December 2015

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-27978 by John Swinney on 27 October 2015, in light of the unrounded figures in relation to GDP not being included in the document referred to in the answer, what steps it will take to make this information available.

As set out in the answer to S4W-27978 the unrounded figures in relation to the 2015 quarter two gross domestic product (GDP) estimates were made available to the Scottish Parliament Information Centre on publication day. These have always been made available in the quarterly national accounts which are published routinely following initial GDP estimates. Unrounded figures will be published alongside the quarterly GDP figures in the future.

Question reference: S4O-04848

Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage films to be made in Scotland to boost local economies.

Question reference: S4O-04813

Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 18 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what action NHS Grampian is taking to tackle drug-related deaths in Aberdeen.

The Scottish Government has asked all Alcohol and Drug Partnerships in Scotland to make the reduction of drug deaths a continued priority in 2015-16. NHS Grampian has a drug related deaths monitoring group to investigate and learn from the circumstances of each death in order that services can continue to improve. NHS Grampian has also been engaged in wider improvement work offered by the Scottish Government, including a recent improvement event in HMP Grampian.

Question reference: S4O-04786

Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 November 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support the energy industry in the north east.

Question reference: S4W-27978

Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 October 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 27 October 2015

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its news release on 7 October 2015, Economic Growth Continues: Scottish economy grows 1.9% in the year to Q2 2015 states, "Today’s National Statistics show that the Scottish economy has grown for twelve consecutive quarters" when the accompanying data table shows that it has grown for only 11 quarters.

The observation of 12 consecutive quarters of growth is based on unrounded data. Data in the GDP bulletin is rounded to 1 decimal place but underlying estimates are produced at a full level of precision.

Unrounded data are routinely published in the quarterly national accounts which follow the initial GDP estimates.

For the purposes of transparency unrounded figures were released to the Scottish Parliament Information Centre on the same day as publication and a summary is published at the link:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Budget/GDP/GDP.html

Question reference: S4O-04721

Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 October 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to promote cultural events in the north east.

Question reference: S4O-04610

Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 September 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to NHS Grampian to help recruit and retain staff.

Question reference: S4O-04584

Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2015
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 September 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has for Aberdeen police control room.

Question reference: S4O-04541

Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 September 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councils on progressing the bid for the Aberdeen City Region deal.