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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)
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Question reference: S4W-00736

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 24 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many modern apprenticeship places have been agreed in each sector for 2011-12.

Question reference: S4W-00734

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 24 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much Inverclyde Council will pay for schools built under PPP/PFI.

Question reference: S4W-00735

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 24 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many modern apprenticeship places have been agreed in each local authority area for 2011-12.

Question reference: S4O-00072

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment will introduce to help the Scottish Government achieve its 100% renewable electricity target by 2020.

Question reference: S4O-00020

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 9 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to improve governance in the further education sector.

Question reference: S4O-00029

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what support is available to members of the public who are unable to obtain legal representation in a civil law case.

Question reference: S4W-00323

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S3W-40482

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 17 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Plan for Offshore Wind Energy in Scottish Territorial Waters will be published.

Offshore renewables represent a huge opportunity for Scotland; an opportunity to create new industries and to make great progress towards achieving our ambitious renewable energy targets.

I am therefore pleased to announce that tomorrow we will publish a Sectoral Plan for Offshore Wind energy in Scottish territorial waters and Post-Adoption Statement.

The Sectoral Plan is a strategic planning document for the development of offshore wind energy in Scottish Territorial Waters which contains proposals for development at the regional level up to 2020 and beyond.

The Sectoral Plan identifies sites that may be progressed in the short term, and prioritises the regions of Scottish Territorial Waters for further exploration as we seek to accommodate additional capacity from Scotland''s considerable offshore wind resource.

The Post-Adoption Statement details how we have taken environmental and socio-economic considerations into account in developing the plan and outlines a process for monitoring the plan''s implementation in order to maintain the quality of our marine environment.

The Scottish Government has worked closely with a wide range of stakeholders to shape the final plan and we will continue to do so during its implementation.

Question reference: S3W-39267

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38738 by Shona Robison on 26 January 2011, what percentage of shops that underwent test purchasing failed on both the first and second exercises and what action was taken.

The percentage of shops that underwent test purchasing and failed on both the first and second exercises were as follows:

Year	Failed both Visits
2008-09	5%
2009-10	9%
April to September 2010	9%

Premises that failed both visits are the subject of a report to the Procurator Fiscal. Outcomes were as follows

Year	Fined	Fiscal Fine	Fiscal Warning	No Proceedings	Guilty Admonished	Non Court Disposal	Pending
2008	27%	0	42%	19%	12%	0	0
2009	35%	12%	12%	23%	0	4%	14%

Question reference: S3W-38738

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many shops have failed test purchasing for selling tobacco products since 2003, broken down by local authority.

This information is not held centrally. However, the information has been routinely collected by the Society for Chief Officers for Trading Standards in Scotland (SCOTSS) from 1 April 2008. The information is shown in the following table.

Breakdown of Tobacco Test Purchasing Failures per Authority between 1 April 2008 and 30 September 2010.

Local Authority	First Failure	Second Failure	Total
Aberdeen City	35	7	42
Aberdeenshire	8	2	10
Angus	20	4	24
Argyll and Bute	40	0	40
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	0	0	0
Clackmannanshire	8	1	9
Dumfries and Galloway	14	0	14
Dundee	15	0	15
East Ayrshire	8	0	8
East Dunbartonshire	9	0	9
East Lothian	12	0	12
East Renfrewshire	15	2	17
Edinburgh	68	3	71
Falkirk	0	0	0
Fife	39	2	41
Glasgow	91	25	116
Highland	0	0	0
Inverclyde	0	0	0
Moray	5	0	5
Midlothian	3	0	3
North Ayrshire	15	0	15
North Lanarkshire	89	12	101
Orkney	0	0	0
Perth and Kinross	12	0	12
Renfrewshire	46	9	55
Scottish Borders	20	1	21
Shetland	7	0	7
South Ayrshire	33	2	35
South Lanarkshire	46	3	49
Stirling	4	0	4
West Dunbartonshire	22	1	23
West Lothian	26	4	30
Totals	710	78	788