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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-00855

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Secretary of State for Scotland following the publication of the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Select Committee report, The Crown Estate in Scotland.

Question reference: S4O-00835

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress the Climate Challenge Fund is making in combating climate change by helping local communities to reduce their carbon emissions.

Question reference: S4W-05605

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 8 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £3.2 million allocated by the UK Government to the devolved administrations to fund not-for-profit free advice services has been allocated to it; how it will distribute this, and what the timescale will be.

The Scottish Government received £1.7 million of the £3.2 million Barnett consequentials allocated by the UK Government. Barnett consequentials accrue to Scotland as a whole and it is for Scottish Ministers to decide collectively how they should be deployed in light of the overall financial position and strategic priorities. Ministers’ allocated consequentials for 2011-12 at the Spring Budget Revision published in January 2012.

Whilst funding for local advice services in Scotland comes predominately from Local Government, which is best placed to assess and meet local requirements, there may be instances where the Scottish Government allocates grant funding directly for particular initiatives. This was case on 29 February 2012, where funding of £4.8 million from the Scottish Government and £2.2 million from the Money Advice Service was committed to fund a programme to be managed by the Scottish Legal Aid Board to help Scots resolve their legal and financial problems.

Question reference: S4O-00443

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings have been scheduled for the First Minister's forthcoming visit to China.

Question reference: S4O-00391

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will report on the outcome of the Smarter Choices Smarter Places scheme and the impact that this has had on encouraging active travel.

Question reference: S4W-02116

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-00958 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 December 2011, what input NHS boards are having to its work in establishing a national plan for rare diseases.

Question reference: S4W-02297

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 22 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-00958 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 July 2011, what input NHS boards are having to its work in establishing a national plan for rare diseases.

Question reference: S4O-00175

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to improve the early detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Question reference: S4O-00122

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Transport Scotland regarding capital infrastructure projects.

Question reference: S4W-01939

Asked by: Jim Eadie, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 25 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive who are the members of the stakeholder group it established to examine investment in high speed rail and what are the group's terms of reference.

We have invited a wide range of organisations to contribute to Scotland’s argument for inclusion in a British high speed rail network. Work has already commenced, with an initial meeting of the partnership’s Strategic Management Group held on 17 August 2011.

We have invited the involvement of: Network Rail, Glasgow City Council, City of Edinburgh Council, Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities, CBI Scotland, Scottish Trades Union Congress, Scottish Futures Trust, Scottish Chambers of Commerce, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Council for Development and Industry, Transform Scotland, Regional Transport Partnerships, Glasgow Edinburgh Collaboration Initiative.

Under the guidance of a Strategic Management Group, we will take forward three main streams of activity:

Development of a Business Case which will refresh Transport Scotland’s 2009 Strategic Business Case for high speed rail to Scotland, in the context of the development of proposals for high speed rail in the UK since that time, and considering new evidence;

Development of a promotional strategy setting the Scottish vision for high speed rail, and developing a joint narrative describing the benefits that high speed rail will deliver – not only directly to the Central Belt, but across all areas of Scotland;

Development of options for new high-speed line routes within Scotland, and the location of new termini at Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The specific remits of individual work streams is yet to be agreed by the groups.