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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 5 May 2025
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Question reference: S3W-17649

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 14 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that there is competition in the private bull hire market in the most remote communities.

Question reference: S3W-17634

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 14 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive which (a) crofters, (b) grazings committees and (c) crofting communities hired a bull in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.

Question reference: S3W-17635

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 14 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive which islands received a bull or bulls through the Crofters Commission’s Bull Hire Scheme in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008.

Question reference: S3W-17632

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 14 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many bulls the Crofters Commission owns and administers for hire to crofters.

Question reference: S3W-17633

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 14 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many bulls for hire were sent to (a) crofters, (b) grazings committees and (c) crofting communities in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.

Question reference: S3W-17647

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 14 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the giving away or selling of Crofters Commission bulls at below market rates raises any state aid implications.

Question reference: S3W-17653

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 14 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether applications to the Scotland Rural Development Programme that relate to the transport costs of bulls in a private bull hire scheme are guaranteed to be approved.

Question reference: S3W-17655

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 14 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how crofters can make an application to obtain financial support to hire bulls from private bull hire enterprises.

Question reference: S3W-17652

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 14 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what calculations and assumptions lay behind the cost figures quoted in the statement by Michael Russell on 1 October 2008 (Official Report c. 11309) that referred to changes in the Bull Hire Scheme.

Question reference: S3W-17207

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 24 October 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 November 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been in hospital awaiting a care home bed in the (a) Highland, (b) Moray, (c) Argyll and Bute, (d) Shetland, (e) Western Isles and (f) Orkney council areas in each of the last eight quarters.