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Chamber and committees

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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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 7 October 2025
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Question reference: S3W-02021

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were on the sex offenders’ register in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S3W-01923

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent by each NHS board in each of the last five years on (a) administration and (b) management, expressed (i) as a percentage of its total budget and (ii) per head of population.

Question reference: S3W-02035

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 25 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting times are for residential (a) drug and (b) alcohol detoxification treatment in each NHS board.

Question reference: S3W-02029

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 25 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths there have been in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area and expressed per 100,000 head of population.

Question reference: S3W-02017

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and by what percentage, each NHS board budget increased in each year from 1999-2000 to 2004-05 (a) in total and (b) per capita and what each board’s average annual increase was over that timescale.

Question reference: S3W-02011

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of unemployment is, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-02009

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the social work expenditure on care of elderly people was in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority and expressed also per head of population.

Question reference: S3W-02047

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) residential, (b) nursing and (c) mentally infirm elderly people’s care beds have been available in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area and showing the total annual cost of providing the beds in each category.

Question reference: S3W-02046

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many clinical psychologists have been employed in child and adolescent mental health teams in each NHS board area in each year since 2002.

Question reference: S3W-02003

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been carried out of the potential impact on the Scottish economy if proposals by the UK Government to reduce rail services on the east coast mainline proceed.