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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 14 October 2024
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Question reference: S1W-00372

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 2 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide an estimate of the impact on employment in the paper industry in Scotland of the proposed greenhouse gas emission tax.

Question reference: S1W-00243

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 24 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 2 July 1999

To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will arrange for the names of those persons sitting at the tables at the rear of the Assembly Hall chamber to be printed on name cards along with a description of their position.

Question reference: S1O-00177

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 24 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 2 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide an estimate of the impact on employment in the paper industry in Scotland of the proposed greenhouse gas emission tax.

Question reference: S1W-00068

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 30 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make extra financial provision for the costs of police overtime during the Millennium holiday period.

Question reference: S1W-00110

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 29 June 1999

To ask the Presiding Officer how many seats there will be for visitors in the proposed Holyrood Parliament and how many there are in the Church of Scotland Assembly Hall Chamber.

Question reference: S1W-00111

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 29 June 1999

To ask the Presiding Officer what instructions, directions or advice, if any, have been given to Enric Miralles regarding the shape of the debating chamber in the proposed Holyrood Parliament building.

Question reference: S1W-00075

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to seek an assurance from the Scottish Legal Aid Board that either - (a) the targets within which Advice and Assistance, Civil and Criminal accounts should be paid are being met; or, (b) arrangements are being made to ensure that the targets will be met in future.

Question reference: S1W-00071

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 24 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review the Housing (Right to Buy)(Cost Floor)(Scotland) Order (S.I. 1999/611) and the Right to Buy Cost Floor Determination.

Question reference: S1W-00069

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 24 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to lay before the Parliament the 38 responses made to the February 1998 consultation paper on changes to the Right to Buy scheme and cost floor rules.

Question reference: S1W-00070

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 June 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 24 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to restore, for a period of six months or other trial period, to those tenants affected by the Housing (Right to Buy)(Cost Floor)(Scotland) Order (S.I. 1999/611) the right to purchase their council house with the benefit of the discount which they would have received under the previous rules.