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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 9 July 2025
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Question reference: S1W-18055

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 25 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it or the enterprise network support the proposals for the Fort William waterfront development, what financial assistance the enterprise network will provide to this scheme and whether the network will support and match fund any application for EU funding.

Question reference: S1W-17897

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 25 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to relocate any executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies either in whole or in part to Inverness.

Question reference: S1W-17896

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 24 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to relocate civil servants to Inverness.

Question reference: S1W-17697

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 19 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the predators of red squirrels are; what action it plans to take in order to control such predators; whether there is any justification for issuing licenses to kill red squirrels and, if so, how many such licenses have been issued in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S1W-17693

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 19 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16509 by Rhona Brankin on 30 July 2001, how many licences applied for under section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 were refused in each year since 1990.

Question reference: S1W-17893

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 14 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it will provide for the disposal of venison carcasses and whether it will provide additional support for the marketing of Scottish wild venison throughout the UK.

Question reference: S1W-17892

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 14 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken or plans to take to address any animal welfare issues this autumn resulting from the animal movement restrictions and lack of auction sales and whether it will provide any assistance for the purchase of additional fodder or other purposes.

Question reference: S1W-17895

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 14 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil service or non-departmental public body jobs have been relocated to Inverness since May 1999.

Question reference: S1W-17894

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 13 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will support the campaign to relocate the Scottish Arts Council to Inverness.

Question reference: S1W-17699

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentists practising in Scotland are not entitled to any payment under the commitment payments scheme because of (a) not achieving the #25,000 earnings threshold or (b) not having completed 10 years of service and what the estimated cost would be of extending the commitment payments scheme to such persons.