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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.

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Question reference: S4W-01549

Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when ministers were advised of the resignation of the chief executive of Glasgow 2014.

Question reference: S4W-00202

Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what recent guidance it has issued to NHS boards concerning the provision of car parking at NHS facilities for staff and visitors.

Question reference: S4W-00203

Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde concerning the provision of car parking for patients and staff at its facilities.

Question reference: S3W-40322

Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 07 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38548 by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 January 2011, whether it will provide an update on its meeting with the Scottish Muscle Network in February 2011.

Question reference: S3O-12963

Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what importance it attaches to the recommendations in The Mackie Report.

Following my participation in the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign''s annual conference in October 2010, I made a very strong statement in support of the recommendations in the Mackie Report.

These are endorsed by the recommendations in the Scottish Muscle Network''s strategic review of services for people with neuro-muscular disorders. The Minister for Public Health and Sport had a productive meeting, earlier this week, with representatives of the network, to discuss implementation of both pieces of work.

Question reference: S3W-39161

Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 4 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37769 by Keith Brown on 20 January 2011, whether the funding contribution set aside in its 2011-12 budget represents the total contribution it expects to make toward Fastlink and, if not, whether it will provide details of funding contributions in future financial years.

Question reference: S3W-39160

Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 4 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37769 by Keith Brown on 20 January 2011, how much has been set aside in its 2011-12 budget as a funding contribution toward Fastlink.

Question reference: S3W-39159

Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 4 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38673 by Keith Brown on 20 January 2011, when it expects to have completed its considerations of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport’s proposals for the modernisation of the Glasgow subway.

Question reference: S3W-39162

Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 3 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37769 by Keith Brown on 20 January 2011, whether it has advised Strathclyde Partnership for Transport how much it will contribute to Fastlink in (a) total, (b) 2011-12 and (c) future years and, if so, when this advice was given.

Question reference: S3W-38548

Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37100 by Shona Robison on 3 November 2010, whether a ministerial meeting has taken place with representatives of the Scottish Muscle Network to discuss the recommendations in The Mackie Report and the report by the Scottish Muscle Network on its review of neuromuscular services and, if so, whether it will report on the outcome of the meeting.