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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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Question reference: S5W-23162

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how it will consult people with learning disabilities and their representative organisations on measures to assist vulnerable witnesses in the criminal justice system.

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring a fair and effective justice system that is accessible to all. We recognise that people with learning disabilities may require additional support to enable them to secure that access, and that it is vital to involve them and their representative organisations in work to develop policies relating to this support.

This is demonstrated by our approach to the development of a new statutory Appropriate Adult (AA) service, which will provide support to vulnerable victims, witnesses, suspects and accused, and is scheduled to go live later this year. We have engaged with a number of organisations, including the SOLD Network, People First Scotland and the Scottish Commission for Learning Disability to help us develop the statutory service.

We held workshops where people with lived experience of learning disabilities and mental health issues could learn more about the proposals, provide feedback and make suggestions about the model. Our public consultation on the statutory AA service also sought ideas on how best to obtain the views of those accessing the service and we received a range of responses which are being considered in relation to the quality assessment of the service.

The engagement outlined above provides a strong foundation for any future consultation on measures to ensure that people with learning disabilities have fair and equal access to justice.

Question reference: S5W-23254

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 May 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 23 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what the passenger numbers have been for each airport in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S5O-03301

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met COSLA and what was discussed.

Question reference: S5W-23067

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on asking Scottish Water to advise customers of forthcoming or ongoing consultations by enclosing information about these to water bills, in light of its paper, Investing in and paying for your water services from 2021, Summary of Responses, recording 107 responses only to that consultation, 87 of which were from members of the public.

Question reference: S5W-23063

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what correlation there is between property values and the supply and removal of water by Scottish Water from eligible properties.

Question reference: S5W-23062

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its paper, Investing in and paying for your water services from 2021, Summary of Responses, recording 107 responses to the consultation, what its response is to concerns that this is an inadequate level of response to determine the charging principles for 2021-27.

Question reference: S5W-23064

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason owner-occupiers in multi-storey properties reportedly pay more for the removal of the same volume of roof water as owners of single-storey ground properties with similar carbon footprints.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-23063 on 22 May 2019. Property drainage charges are calculated by reference to the rateable value a property, not volume of water. Properties with higher rateable values will also have a higher bill. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .

Question reference: S5W-23176

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to answers to questions S5W-22038 and S5W-22039 by Roseanna Cunningham on 20 March 2019, how many water charge payers in each local authority area it estimates are paying more than 3% of their income on water charges, after housing costs, and how (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) Argyll and Bute Council compares with the national average.

Question reference: S5W-23181

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government from which bodies Scottish Water borrows to finance capital spending.

Question reference: S5W-23178

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much debt arising from past capital spending Scottish Water has, and how much it has repaid in each of the last 10 years.

Year	Repaid (£m)
2009-10	72.42
2010-11	72.95
2011-12	95.96
2012-13	107.61
2013-14	110.36
2014-15	115.47
2015-16	119.52
2016-17	118.90
2017-18	122.65
2018-19	122.95