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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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  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 5 November 2025
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Question reference: S3W-10665

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether ministers are debarred from taking an active part in supporting a live planning application to the potential exclusion of another developer when the former has donated money to their campaign or political party.

Question reference: S3W-10663

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how, in the context of paragraphs 6.7 to 6.12 of the Scottish Ministerial Code, the Minister for Community Safety differentiated between the interests of two competing developers in Aviemore.

Question reference: S3W-10668

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether a minister seeking to accelerate or facilitate a live planning application without a satisfactory flood risk assessment and without speaking to objectors to that application constitutes a breach of the paragraph 6.11 and 6.12 of the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S3W-10667

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether a minister attending a meeting to consider a live planning application with the planning authority in the company of the convener of another planning authority about to call-in that application, if that minister did not also seek to meet other developers or objectors with an interest in the decision, constitutes a breach of paragraphs 6.11 and 6.12 of the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S3W-10031

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 14 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all the official engagements which were undertaken by the Minister for Community Safety during (a) October, (b) November and (c) December 2007.

Question reference: S3W-10061

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many times and on what dates any member of the Scottish Government has stayed overnight in the Marcliffe of Pitfodels Hotel in Aberdeen since May 2007, showing whether a (a) full or (b) discounted price was paid for each stay.

Question reference: S3W-10561

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 6 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9634 by Stewart Maxwell on 27 February 2008, whether any changes have been made to the policy of back charging customers with prepayment meters as a result of his meeting with Scottish Power.

Question reference: S3W-09721

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) individuals have responded to and (b) comments have been received by the National Conversation website.

Question reference: S3W-09635

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 6 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Communities and Sport has specifically discussed prepayment meters with Scottish Power.

Question reference: S3W-09636

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 6 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether, as a result of its discussions with Scottish Power, backcharging for prepayment meter customers has been stopped.