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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

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search.  There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

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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 10 December 2024
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Question reference: S1W-00276

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 21 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to recommend to the Scottish Law Commission that it incorporates the issue of long leases of residential property into its seventh programme of law reform.

Question reference: S1W-00349

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 21 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what assurances it has sought and what response it has received from Lloyds TSB regarding the continued presence of Scottish Widows headquarters in Scotland and the continued employment in Scotland of all Scottish Widows employees.

Question reference: S1W-00430

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 05 July 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 21 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 in so far as it relates to matters within its responsibility.

Question reference: S1W-00123

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 20 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make available details of which local authorities are currently providing free school milk, including details of the extent of this provision and the annual cost in each case.

Question reference: S1W-00124

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 20 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to encourage local authorities to make free milk available to primary school children.

Question reference: S1W-00275

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 19 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to reform the law relating to long leasehold tenure

Question reference: S1W-00327

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 19 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make representations to British Airways with regard to the restoration of a direct air service between Inverness and London Heathrow and whether it intends to ask Her Majesty's Government and the European Commission to make similar representations.

Question reference: S1W-00348

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 19 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive when it envisages that the proposed bill to abolish the feudal system of land tenure will receive Royal Assent.

Question reference: S1W-00112

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 19 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to consult the Federation of Small Businesses in connection with the impending revaluation of non-domestic rates, and the rules and principles to be applied in that revaluation.

Question reference: S1W-00429

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 05 July 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 19 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what is the estimated cost of upgrading the remaining single track sections of the road between Fort William and Mallaig.