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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-17222

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 25 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what harbour charges Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL) is applying at Gourock harbour; whether they include a subsidy for other CMAL-owned harbours, and, if so, whether this contravenes EU law.

Question reference: S4W-17224

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 25 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on Transport Scotland's advice in relation to harbour charges and whether such charges should be based on an analysis of actual cost recovery.

Question reference: S4W-17047

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 23 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has stopped providing tuition fee funding and grants for postgraduate educational psychology courses since 2012 and, if so, for what reason; whether this has created a two-tier system; whether it considers that this will have a negative impact on the number of full-time equivalent educational psychologists in local authorities, and what it is doing to address the shortage of educational psychologists predicted by the Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists.

Question reference: S4W-16951

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 20 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its response to The review of NHS Pharmaceutical Care of Patients in the Community.

Question reference: S4O-02438

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has made of the issues faced by people under 65 with dementia.

Question reference: S4W-17018

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 06 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 18 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether the traffic lights at the Longman roundabout in Inverness are permanent and, if not, when they will be removed.

Question reference: S4W-16950

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 18 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government who the expert ferry group will meet and when.

Question reference: S4W-16949

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 18 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether the expert ferry group will advise on the provision of new ferry routes.

Question reference: S4W-16947

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 18 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government who the members of the expert ferry group will be.

Question reference: S4W-16945

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 18 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what proposals it has received from CalMac Ferries Limited for a two-day-per-week ferry service between Lochboisdale and Mallaig.