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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-02241

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 27 September 2012

First Ministerial events are organised by the Scottish Government Visits and Events team and the majority are funded from the central ministerial events budget. A breakdown of spend by financial year for First Ministerial events managed by this team are detailed in the following table:

Financial Year	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Food and drink costs	£120,921	£70,920	£115,542	£96,014	£88,080
Average cost per event	£3,779	£2,288	£2,963	£2,595	£2,590
Number of events	32	31	39	37	34

Constant price estimates for food and drink have been derived using the CPI "Food, alcoholic beverages & tobacco" price index. Other costs have been deflated by the total CPI index and are presented in 2010-11 prices.

Question reference: S4W-03790

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 27 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S4W-02241.

Question reference: S4W-05345

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 27 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S4W-02241, which received a holding response from John Swinney on 16 November 2011.

Question reference: S4O-01353

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 October 2012

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met representatives of BBC Scotland and what issues were discussed.

Question reference: S4W-09449

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2012
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 21 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-08694 by Alex Neil on 9 August 2012, for what reason there was a reduction in the number of completions through the New Supply Shared Equity Housing Scheme in South Lanarkshire from 56 in 2009-10 to 8 in 2010-11 and 0 in 2011-12.

Question reference: S4W-09452

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2012
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 21 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-08694 by Alex Neil on 9 August 2012, for what reason there was a reduction in the number of completions through the Open Market Shared Equity Scheme in Falkirk from 21 in 2009-10 to 11 in 2010-11 and 2 in 2011-12.

In 2009-10, the Open Market Shared Equity Pilot was extended across all of Scotland and available to all first time buyers. In 2010-11, the scheme was available to help waiting list applicants from the previous year and when there were no waiting list applicants remaining, the scheme was made available to priority group applicants only (which included social renters, service members of the armed forces, armed forces veterans and disabled people). In 2011-12, the Open Market Shared Equity Scheme was available to priority group applicants only. The scheme is demand led and the number of completions in each year will depend on the number of people in each area who apply to the scheme, how many of these people are eligible to participate in the scheme, and how many go on to successfully purchase a property.

Question reference: S4W-09450

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2012
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 21 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-08694 by Alex Neil on 9 August 2012, for what reason there was a reduction in the number of completions through the Shared Equity Housing Scheme in Falkirk from 18 in 2009-10 to 0 in 2010-11 and 0 in 2011-12.

Question reference: S4W-09448

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2012
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 21 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-08694 by Alex Neil on 9 August 2012, for what reason there was a reduction in the number of completions through the New Supply Shared Equity Housing Scheme in North Lanarkshire from 60 in 2009-10 to 6 in 2010-11.

Question reference: S4W-09455

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2012
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 21 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-08695 by Alex Neil on 9 August 2012, what progress has been made in implementing the MI New Home Scheme and when it will become operational.

Question reference: S4W-09453

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2012
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 21 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-8694 by Alex Neil on 9 August 2012, for what reason there was a reduction in the number of completions through the Open Market Shared Equity Scheme in North Lanarkshire from 45 in 2009-10 to 5 in 2010-11 and 1 in 2011-12.