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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 成人快手 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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 18 June 2025
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Question reference: S1W-01726

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what contact there has been between members of the Executive and Beattie Media, including its employees, in relation to (i) freight shipment rights at Prestwick Airport, (ii) development on the Lomond Shores Centre at Loch Lomond, (iii) any development within the constituency of Brian Wilson MP and (iv) youth soccer academies.

Question reference: S1W-01730

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to ensure that any investigation by the Standards Committee into Beattie Media will have full access to all information which they consider relevant to their inquiries, including Ministers' diaries.

Question reference: S1W-01733

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that self-regulation by lobbyist organisations is adequate and if so, whether it will make a statement justifying its position.

Question reference: S1W-01731

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will instruct or request that all public bodies for which it is responsible, including Executive Agencies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies, make available to the Scottish Parliament Information Centre details of any monies which have been paid, are due, or may become due to any lobbyist organisations or company.

Question reference: S1W-01727

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what contact members and staff of the Executive have had with the Observer newspaper regarding the reports of 26 September 1999 and in particular whether there was any such contact with the newspaper before 26 September and, if so, whether it will specify the dates such contact took place.

Question reference: S1W-01729

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will specify the criteria which are used to determine in what circumstances Ministers will agree to a meeting with (a) 成人快手 of the Labour Party (b) 成人快手 of the Liberal Democrat Party (c) 成人快手 of other parties (d) special interest groups and (e) lobbyists of clients, and state whether there is any guideline as to the time within which such meetings can be arranged.

Question reference: S1W-01723

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will, pending the outcome of any investigation by the Standards Committee into the reports by the Observer newspaper of 26 September 1999 regarding Beattie Media, (a) instruct the company that they may not enter any Scottish Executive office, (b) give an undertaking that it will not meet with Beattie Media and (c) request Beattie Media that it will not seek to influence the Executive on any matter.

Question reference: S1W-01732

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that public funds should be used by public bodies for which it is responsible in the engagement of the services of lobbyist organisations or companies and, if so, for what purpose or purposes and why such services cannot be carried out by others already in the employ of the public sector.

Question reference: S1W-01728

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence will be made available to the Standards Committee in relation to the Observer reports of 26 September 1999 and whether it will seek to exclude, restrict or otherwise limit the production of such evidence by virtue of reliance on the Code of Freedom of Information and, if so, whether it will specify which provisions of the Code are being relied upon and for what reasons.

Question reference: S1W-01724

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 1999
  • Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether since 6 May 1999 any meetings with Ministers have taken place which were arranged with, sought by or otherwise followed requests from Beattie Media or any of the staff of that company and, if so, to specify them in a list detailing (a) the Minister (b) the date of the meeting and (c) the person or persons who arranged the meeting or meetings.