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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 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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 25 November 2024
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Question reference: S1W-20336

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated monthly cost is of maintaining the estate of the former HM Prison Longriggend.

Question reference: S1W-20324

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many general practitioners Medacs provides to prisons, how these general practitioners are distributed between prisons, and what the ratio of these general practitioners is to prisoners, broken down by prison.

Question reference: S1W-20327

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7645 by Mr Jim Wallace on 8 September 2000, what the average daily population of penal establishments is projected to be in each of the next three financial years, broken down into (a) privately operated penal establishments, (b) Scottish Prison Service establishments and (c) legalised police cells.

Question reference: S1W-20326

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11578 by Mr Jim Wallace on 12 December 2000, whether data is now collected on the prevalence of speech and language difficulties among the prison population and, if so, what data has been collected.

Question reference: S1W-20335

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps have been taken regarding any possible sale of the former HM Prison Longriggend.

Question reference: S1W-20318

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the expected cost of social work services to the Scottish Prison Service is for the current financial year.

Question reference: S1W-20322

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the turnover of general practitioners who provided a prison medical service was in (a) 1998-99, (b) 1999-2000 and (c) 2000-01, broken down by prison.

Question reference: S1W-20319

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of prison inmates received alcohol counselling and rehabilitation in (a) 1998-99, (b) 1999-2000, (c) 2000-01 and (d) to date this year.

Question reference: S1W-20323

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many general practitioners previously providing a prison medical service have gone on to employment with Medacs.

Question reference: S1W-20315

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7102 by Mr Jim Wallace on 7 June 2000, what percentage of officers who left the Scottish Prison Service in 2000-01 left due to (a) retirement through age, (b) ill health and (c) other reasons.