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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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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 8 October 2025
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Question reference: S1W-11050

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 22 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether, if it introduces a small business rates relief scheme, it will introduce a scheme under which small businesses occupying premises with rateable values of less than #10,000 receive rates relief according to a set of rateable value bands, with those occupying the lowest value premises receiving the greatest relief.

Question reference: S1W-11067

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 22 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consult the Local Government Committee prior to making any ministerial statement on a small business rates relief scheme and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

Question reference: S1W-11055

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 22 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what further research will be conducted or information sought on the issue of a small business rates relief scheme.

Question reference: S1W-11069

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether a form of small business rates relief scheme would assist in achieving its target of creating 100,000 new small businesses by 2009.

Question reference: S1W-11058

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 22 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates since 8 December 1999 it has met representatives of the Assessors to discuss a small business rates relief scheme and when it will next meet such representatives.

Question reference: S1W-11070

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many existing small businesses would cease trading in the period 2009 if a small business rates relief scheme is not introduced on 1 April 2001.

Question reference: S1W-11073

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 22 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of all the administration costs which would arise from the introduction of a small business rates relief scheme.

Question reference: S1W-11048

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 22 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, if small businesses are subject to a disproportionate burden in the level of business rates they are required to pay, why this is the case and what its position is in relation to the evidence given by the Federation of Small Businesses on this issue to the Local Government Committee's inquiry into non-domestic rates.

Question reference: S1W-11075

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 22 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to (a) review, (b) consult on and (c) legislate on the issue of control of levels of rentals of hereditaments.

Question reference: S1W-11043

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
  • Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 22 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps have been and will be taken to ensure that the planning appeals system is compliant with Article 6(1) of the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.