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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: S3W-15381

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cheap lets have been made available to sporting and activity groups in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-15379

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many playing fields there (a) are and (b) were in May 2007, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-15380

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many playing fields have been developed on since May 2007, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-15382

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities provide free year-round access to council swimming pools.

Question reference: S3W-15075

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 18 July 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 August 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many school buses are fitted with seatbelts, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-11367

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 17 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards are being put in place to ensure that university applicants from Scottish schools, who have been given unconditional offers, will not in any way be disadvantaged by new UCAS regulations, which take effect in academic session 2009-10, allowing pupils holding conditional offers the automatic right to upgrade to universities not listed on their UCAS application forms if their exam results exceed the conditions asked for.

Question reference: S3W-11737

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 April 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 15 April 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency calls originating from (a) public payphones and (b) mobile phones were made to raise the coastguard in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S3O-02062

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 31 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what efforts it is making to improve the quality of training provision for teachers and trainee teachers.

Question reference: S3W-06706

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive in how many cases contractors carrying out work on homes being fitted with heating systems under the central heating programme did not come from the local authority area in which the homes were located, broken down by (a) year since 1999 and (b) local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-06702

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on houses and cottages on private estates under the central heating programme in each year since 1999.