Questions and answers

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.

Question reference: S3W-21528

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 13 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will respond to the results of its recent survey of parent councils.

Question reference: S3W-21527

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 13 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the results of its recent survey of parent councils.

Question reference: S3W-21525

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 13 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that there is a need for a national body to represent the views of parents of schoolchildren.

Question reference: S3W-21526

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 13 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it gives to the Scottish Parent Councils Association.

Question reference: S3W-21524

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 13 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how it consults parents when proposing changes in policy or legislation on schools.

Government consults parent councils and other parent representative bodies directly. For example, the chairs of all parent councils and various parent organisations were sent copies of the consultation paper and invited to comment on our proposals for legislative change in relation to rural schools and school consultation procedures. Other appropriate means of ascertaining parents'' views are also used, including open meetings, use of focus groups, the commissioning of surveys, research and via the parentzone website.

Question reference: S3W-21523

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 13 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it values the views of parents of schoolchildren.

Question reference: S3O-06164

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 12 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has approached the city of Lübeck to request that the Lübeck letter be loaned to Scotland on a long-term basis.

Question reference: S3W-21309

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 10 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is content with the scope of the Beauly Denny Public Inquiry now that it has received the final report.

Question reference: S3W-21308

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 9 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what advice it has taken on the possibility of upgrading the east coast transmission line as an alternative to upgrading the Beauly to Denny transmission line.

Question reference: S3W-21310

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 9 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reasons alternatives to the Beauly Denny transmission line were not discussed as part of the Beauly Denny Public Inquiry.

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