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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-00903

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to introduce a one-stop finance information service.

Question reference: S4W-00645

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 23 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will spend the Barnett consequentials received as a consequence of the UK Government’s planned enterprise zones on creating enterprise zones in Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-00646

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 23 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will spend the money that it has received in Barnett consequentials arising from the UK Government’s planned enterprise zones.

Question reference: S4W-00644

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 23 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has received in Barnett consequentials as a consequence of the UK Government’s planned enterprise zones.

The 2011 UK Budget announcement on enterprise zones results in Barnett consequentials in Scotland of £0 million in 2011-12, £1.3 million in 2012-13, £3.4 million in 2013-14, £5.6 million in 2014-15 and £6.6 million in 2015-16. They arise as a result of expected business rate relief in England but remain illustrative. The final figures will reflect the actual level of relief provided.

The figure for 2015-16 sits outside of the current UK Spending Review period and will be considered during the next Spending Review period. In line with all Barnett consequentials, it is for Scottish ministers to allocate this funding.

Question reference: S4W-00647

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 23 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will create enterprise zones in Scotland and, if so, what process it will undertake in deciding which areas to designate enterprise zones; which areas it will designate; what the timetable is, and what outcomes it hopes to achieve in the (a) short and (b) long term.

Question reference: S4W-00606

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 21 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth and the Minister for Housing and Transport first became aware that the security staff at Highlands and Islands Airport employed by Airport Management Services were being paid less than the living wage.

Question reference: S4W-00583

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason Dundee Airport Ltd is listed in Annex A of the Public Sector Pay Policy for Staff Pay Remits 2011-12 but the other wholly owned subsidiaries of Highlands and Islands Airport Ltd are not.

Question reference: S4W-00582

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether its living wage policy applies to wholly owned subsidiaries of public sector bodies.

Question reference: S4W-00584

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive which public sector employees are covered by its living wage policy.

Addressing low pay is one of our key objectives, because we believe in a strong Scottish economy and in promoting fairness and equity for all. We support the objectives and the recommendations of the Scottish living wage campaign to ensure that workers receive at least £7.15 an hour. We have acted on that by requiring that all employers subject to our public sector pay policy for 2011-12 ensure they comply with this minimum pay rate. That covers the Scottish Government, its agencies, and the non-departmental public bodies for which we are responsible. It also covers subsidiaries of these bodies.

In addition, we have made sure that from 1 April 2011 all NHS staff in Scotland earn above £7.15 per hour. All teachers, firefighters and police officers earn above this level.

Local authorities are self-governing bodes and set the terms and conditions under which staff are employed. However, I welcome the fact that a number of local authorities have already introduced a living wage and this government will continue to press all public sector employers to introduce the Scottish living wage.

Question reference: S3W-40562

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 21 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the announcement by Scottish and Southern Energy that it is to halt work on the development of its proposed offshore wind farm at Kintyre, whether it will confirm that no future developer will be able to progress this site.