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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 ��˿�� 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: S4W-05636

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of operable pancreatic cancer cases result in an operation being carried out in (a) Scotland and (b) the rest of the UK.

Question reference: S4O-00749

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider establishing closer working relationships with the emerging democracies in Europe in order to share best practice.

Question reference: S4O-00559

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 January 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in developing the cities strategy and what role towns and villages can play in this.

Question reference: S4O-00333

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making in improving the accountability of factors to the residents of housing estates in relation to landscape maintenance.

Question reference: S4W-03113

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 03 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 27 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has invested in hockey in the last four years and what proportion has been invested in Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley.

Question reference: S4W-03112

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 03 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what it has done to (a) promote and (b) support hockey in Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley in the last four years and with what result.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally.

Sportscotland, as the national agency for sport and the lead agency for the development of sport in Scotland, provides financial investment to Scottish Hockey in order to deliver ministerial priorities and delivering the objectives of Reaching Higher, the national strategy for sport.

I have therefore asked the Chief Executive of sportscotland to write to you separately with details of the promotion and support the organisation has made in the Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley constituency for the years in question.

Question reference: S4O-00164

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what change there has been in the number of students taking computer science as their main subject at university over the last four years.

Question reference: S4O-00115

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has taken to enhance economic growth in Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley.

Question reference: S4W-01236

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on whether the funding provided to (a) sportscotland and (b) sport governing bodies helps to improve the results obtained in sporting competitions.

The Scottish Government is convinced that the funding made available to elite sportsmen and women has made a significant contribution to the results obtained by the Scotland team. At the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010 for instance, the Scottish team exceeded it medal target by bringing home 26 medals.

This success by our elite sports people will be further enhanced by the Scottish Government’s added investment of £2.3 million in 2010-11 and a further £3.3 million this year and we look forward to continued success at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014.

Question reference: S4W-01235

Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures of effectiveness it applies to funding awarded to (a) sportscotland and (b) sport governing bodies.

Scottish Ministers set conditions and priorities within the grant aid provided to sportscotland against which the performance of all investment can be measured. As part of the on-going sponsorship function, sportscotland is required to submit regular reports to the Scottish Government to demonstrate what it is doing to deliver key objectives and Ministerial priorities. This is in line with the rigorous monitoring of expenditure as set out in the Scottish Public Finance Manual.

In terms of sport governing bodies, the monitoring of achievement and meeting of objectives is undertaken by sportscotland, and I have asked the Chief Executive to write to you separately with that information.