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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: S1W-17961

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of those graduating from dental courses in Scotland in each of the last three years remained in Scotland after graduation to undertake dental vocational training.

Question reference: S1W-17963

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of non-Scottish students graduating from dental degree courses in Scotland in each of the last three years remained in Scotland after graduation to undertake dental vocational training.

Question reference: S1W-17962

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of dentists who completed their vocational training in Scotland in each of the last three years remained in Scotland working as dentists afterwards.

Question reference: S1W-17950

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the students accepted on to dental degree courses at Glasgow and Dundee universities in each of the last three years were residing in Scotland when accepted for the course.

Question reference: S1W-17952

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 18 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for assistance under the Scottish Land Fund have been received to date, broken down by (a) parliamentary region and (b) local authority area; how many have been successful; whether it will detail any successful applications, and what the total value is of successful bids so far.

Question reference: S1W-17948

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies for general dental practitioners exist in each health board area, expressed both numerically and as a percentage of the total number of whole-time equivalent general dental practitioners in that area.

Question reference: S1W-17951

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths of persons travelling on powered two-wheelers have occurred in each police force area in each of the last three years and to date in 2001.

Question reference: S1W-17949

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to recruit dentists from either outwith Scotland or outwith the rest of the UK or Ireland to fill vacant general dental practitioner posts.

Question reference: S1W-17947

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of whole-time equivalent general dental practitioners to population is in (a) each health board area and (b) each local authority area.

Question reference: S1W-17757

  • Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11828 by Susan Deacon on 8 January 2001, when it expects it to reach a final conclusion on the recommendations in connection with the closure of emergency control rooms submitted by the Scottish Ambulance Service in December 2000.