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

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Filter your results Hide all filters

Displaying 3473 questions Show Answers

Order by |

Question reference: S1W-01809

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 15 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it will make to ensure payment is made immediately to the 60 students at the Galashiels Heriot-Watt campus who have not yet received their loan cheques.

The Student Awards Agency for Scotland is currently processing the vast majority of properly completed applications within its target of 28 days from the date of receipt and is passing the necessary information on loans to the Student Loans Company Limited. Neither the Agency nor the Company is aware of any particular problem relating to students attending the Galashiels Heriot-Watt campus, although some recently received applications will still be in the course of being dealt with.

If there are individual cases of particular difficulty, the Chief Executive of the Agency will be happy to make enquiries on receipt of the relevant details.Students who are experiencing financial difficulty because their loan cheque is not available can seek temporary help from the University's Access Funds.

Question reference: S1W-01559

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 13 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government to ascertain exactly when they had information which indicated that Viasystems intended closing its Borders operations and whether it can confirm that members of Scottish Borders Enterprise board of directors knew of the closure plans as early as December 1997.

Officials in the then Scottish Office, in Locate in Scotland, and from Scottish Borders Enterprise maintained close contact both with Exacta Systems, and with Viasystems after their acquisition of the company. I understand that the Scottish Office was first informed of the company's closure plans on 29 September 1998.Scottish Borders Enterprise Board have confirmed that they had no knowledge of the closure plans by Viasystems in December 1997.

Question reference: S1W-01096

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 11 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will propose to Her Majesty's Government that the appraisal methodology for Regional Selective Assistance be jointly reviewed in order to address the issues arising from the Viasystems case.

Question reference: S1W-01933

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 7 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to make provision of day care for elderly and frail people a statutory requirement.

Question reference: S1O-00431

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 7 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to make provision of day care for elderly and frail people a statutory requirement.

Question reference: S1W-01771

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Morrison on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what stage the report into the reinstatement of the Waverley Line from Galashiels to Edinburgh has reached.

Question reference: S1O-00410

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Morrison on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what stage the report into the reinstatement of the Waverley Line from Galashiels to Edinburgh has reached.

Question reference: S1O-00357

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 23 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Department of Trade and Industry regarding Regional Selective Assistance.

Question reference: S1W-01682

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 23 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Department of Trade and Industry regarding Regional Selective Assistance.

Question reference: S1W-01359

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 17 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to review or conduct an inquiry into the actions and advice of the Lord Advocate's office from 19 March 1998 to date and, if so, whether the outcomes will be made available to the Parliament.