Questions and answers
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: S4O-00580
- Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2012
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 January 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that the Year of Creative Scotland 2012 benefits rural Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-04355
- Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 December 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 21 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether medical laboratories at (a) the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh and (b) Ninewells Hospital in Dundee have been approached to perform cytogenetic blood tests on nuclear test veterans in the last 10 years and, if so, what the response was.
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Question reference: S4O-00472
- Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2011
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made towards encouraging cooperation and partnership between further education colleges.
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Question reference: S4O-00424
- Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2011
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what contribution golf and golf tourism make to the Fife economy.
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Question reference: S4W-02508
- Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 30 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Exectuive what progress has been made in its negotiations with the UK Department for Transport and the Welsh Assembly Government to help deliver the Ministry of Defence's commitment to make it easier for seriously injured service personnel and veterans under 60 to access the concessionary travel scheme.
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Question reference: S4O-00250
- Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 September 2011
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to raise public awareness of myalgic encephalitis or chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Question reference: S4O-00232
- Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2011
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made toward creating a Scottish sentencing council.
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Question reference: S4O-00193
- Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2011
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to support job creation in Kirkcaldy and the rest of Fife.
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