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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-04262

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 21 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to support the tourism industry in Perthshire and Kinross.

Question reference: S3W-03686

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 10 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of trials by Perth and Kinross Council on visual stimulus modification and educational attainment.

Question reference: S3W-03685

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to introduce orthoscopic screening and treatment to all schools.

Question reference: S3W-01842

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 15 August 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, following the increase of more than 1,000 students in 2008-09 applying for financial assistance and the resultant additional pressures on university hardship funds, what plans the Scottish Government has to ensure that discretionary funds meet this demand.

Question reference: S3W-02277

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 7 August 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans the Scottish Government has to allow educational trusts to run schools.

Question reference: S3W-01362

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many classrooms in local authority primary schools were not assigned to a class of pupils or were otherwise classified as being unused in the last year for which figures are available; how many (a) P1, (b) P2 and (c) P3 classes had more than 18 pupils in that year, and whether it has projected how many extra teachers and classrooms will be required in order to reduce such classes to 18 or fewer by the end of Session 3 of the Parliament.

Question reference: S3W-01190

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 18 June 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 26 June 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of classes in (a) English, (b) mathematics and (c) in total are set by ability in non-streamed local authority secondary schools, broken down by year of study.

Question reference: S3O-00181

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 June 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 June 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to have a national strategy for the provision of sports facilities.

Question reference: S3O-00002

  • Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 May 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 31 May 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how it proposes to take forward the commitment to protect rural schools from closure and what action it will take to assist those schools at immediate risk.