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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: S4F-02164

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 June 2014

To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.

Question reference: S4F-02125

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 May 2014

To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.

Question reference: S4F-02108

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 19 May 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 May 2014

To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.

Question reference: S4W-20704

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) 16 and (b) 17-year-olds have registered to vote in the referendum on independence.

National Records for Scotland (NRS) published their annual statistics on electoral registration in Scotland – Electoral Statistics for Scotland, 2014 on 1 May 2014. These can be accessed in full at:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/electoral-stats/10-march-2014/index.html

The NRS statistics show that 98,000 16 and 17 year olds had registered to vote by 10 March 2014. The deadline to register to vote in the referendum is 2 September 2014.

Question reference: S4T-00686

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 May 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 May 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the National Review of Asthma Deaths, which suggests that some deaths from the condition arise because of complacency among both medical staff and patients.

Question reference: S4F-02068

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 May 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 May 2014

To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the Cabinet.

Question reference: S4W-20667

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 07 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 April 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the assessment in the Oxford Economics report, The potential implications of independence for businesses in Scotland, that its policy on corporation tax would take 10 to 15 years to pay for itself.

Question reference: S4W-20666

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 07 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 April 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the Oxford Economics report, The potential implications of independence for businesses in Scotland, whether it will reconsider its decision not to publish the cost of its policy on corporation tax for the first years of implementation.

The Scottish Government has published detailed modelling of the potential impacts of corporation tax policy equivalent to a reduction in the headline rate by 3 percentage points.

The report which is available by following the link below, outlines the impact of such a policy in terms of boosting output, employment and government spending, amongst other variables, and, where appropriate, breaks them down by time period. The analysis indicates that the level of GDP in Scotland could increase by 1.4% and employment by 27,000 after 20 years.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0038/00388940.pdf

Question reference: S4W-20668

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 07 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 April 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what information it provided to Oxford Economics to inform its report, The potential implications of independence for businesses in Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-20669

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 07 April 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 April 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the assumption in the Oxford Economics report, The potential implications of independence for businesses in Scotland, that the £250 million figure in its white paper on independence that was attributed to a simplified tax system, is the result of changes in the corporation tax system.

This government plans to design a simple and transparent tax system after independence. As set out on page 121 of Scotland’s Future, the government will work with Revenue Scotland to simplify the tax system to reduce compliance costs, streamline reliefs and help to reduce tax avoidance, with the aim of generating additional tax revenues of up to £250 million per year by the end of the first term of an independent Parliament.

As recognised in the Oxford Economics report, this commitment is separate to our plans to set out a timescale for reducing corporation tax in Scotland by up to 3 percentage points below the prevailing UK rate.