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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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Question reference: S4W-07005

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2012
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of buses has been on time in each year from 2005 to 2011, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) operator.

Question reference: S4W-06992

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2012
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it holds bus service data broken down by (a) region and (b) company.

Question reference: S4W-07006

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2012
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to introducing a scheme to subsidise bus fares so that they cost no more than the equivalent journey by car.

Question reference: S4W-06991

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2012
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what data it or its agencies collect on (a) punctuality of bus services, (b) bus ticket prices and (c) bus passenger experience, broken down by (i) operator and (ii) local authority.

Information on the punctuality of bus services is not held centrally.

Table 6 in Bus and Coach Statistics: 2010-11 provides information on bus ticket prices. This can be found at:

http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/files/documents/public-transport/Bus_and_Coach_Statistics_2010-11.pdf.

Tables 13 of Scottish Household Survey: Transport Local Area Analysis 2009-10 provides information on the bus passenger experience. This can be found at:

http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/node/7644.

Question reference: S4F-00622

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 April 2012

To ask the First Minister when a decision will be made on the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre.

Question reference: S4W-06222

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 28 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had discussions with (a) the Crown Estate, (b) Stirling Council and (c) the Scotland Office over plans to sell King's Park in Stirling and, if so, what the outcome of these discussions was.

There have been meetings between Historic Scotland, the Crown Estate and Stirling Council on this topic on a number of occasions. The Scotland Office was not involved in these meetings.

These meetings have discussed (a) how best to secure the future day-to-day management of certain relatively small areas of land which are particularly relevant for Historic Scotland’s visitor operations at Stirling Castle and (b) how to ensure that preservation of the wider amenity of the castle is given proper weight in future. Discussions are ongoing.

Question reference: S4W-06099

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 26 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with (a) East Ayrshire Council, (b) Scottish Natural Heritage and (c) the European Commission regarding the impact of the Grievehill opencast coal mine on the Muirkirk and North Lowther Uplands Special Protection Area.

Question reference: S4W-06101

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 26 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether adverse impacts on the Muirkirk and North Lowther Uplands Special Protection Area as a result of opencast mining at Grievehill are greater than anticipated and, if so, what those impacts are and what action is being taken to ensure compliance with the Habitats Regulations 1994 (as amended) and the Environmental Impact (Scotland) Regulations 1999 (as amended).

Question reference: S4W-06100

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 26 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that the opencast coal mine at Grievehill will not have a long-term adverse impact on the Muirkirk and North Lowther Uplands Special Protection Area.

Question reference: S4O-00850

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to make changes to the planning system.