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.
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Question reference: S6W-23002
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 11 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the full details of any payments that it has reportedly made towards the legal costs of Sheriff Jack Brown in relation to fitness for judicial office tribunal proceedings.
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Question reference: S6W-22933
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 8 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide details of any (a) internal communications involving (i) ministers and (ii) officials regarding Sheriff Alistair Duff’s role as a director of the Judicial Institute for Scotland, in light of the Police Scotland investigation that resulted in him being convicted at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
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Question reference: S6W-22932
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 8 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide details of any (a) internal communications involving (i) ministers and (ii) officials and (b) external communications in respect of the Police Scotland investigation that resulted in Sheriff Alistair Duff being convicted at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
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Question reference: S6W-22934
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 8 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide details of any (a) internal communications involving (i) ministers and (ii) officials regarding the former First Minister’s appointment of Sheriff Alistair Duff to the Fitness for Judicial Office Tribunal in 2019, in light of the Police Scotland investigation that resulted in him being convicted at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
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Question reference: S6W-22929
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 4 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what action it plans to take in light of reports of suspected links between the state of Iran and the Al-Mahdi Islamic Centre of Glasgow, including in relation to the £200,000 funding reportedly granted to it by the Scottish Government.
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Question reference: S6W-23055
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the Scottish Prison Service plans to publish its annual procurement report for 2022-23.
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Question reference: S6W-23054
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the Scottish Prison Service plans to publish its annual report and accounts for 2022-23.
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Question reference: S6W-23056
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the Parole Board for Scotland plans to publish its annual report for 2022-23.
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Question reference: S6W-22927
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the number of Scottish Prison Service (a) dogs and (b) dog handlers that are trained to detect drugs and other contraband since this information was last provided to the Scottish Parliament's Health and Sport Committee on 10 January 2018.
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Question reference: S6O-02847
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports of increasing violence towards teachers and students in schools.
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