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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: S4F-00368

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 December 2011

To ask the First Minister what engagements he has planned for the rest of the day.

Question reference: S4F-00295

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 21 November 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 November 2011

To ask the First Minister how the Scottish Government will ensure that proper security checks and policing are in place at ports.

Question reference: S4W-03665

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Lesley Thomson on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many procurators fiscal employed on a temporary contracts will not have their contracts renewed in 2011-12.

Between April and October 2011, eight lawyers left at the end of their fixed term contracts.

Fourteen lawyers are currently employed on fixed term contracts that are due to end before the end of March 2012.

Decisions with regard to use of Fixed Term staff are made when necessary and in response to particular requirements as they arise. Accordingly it is not possible to predict numbers of Fixed Term Contracts that may be offered in 2012-13.

Question reference: S4W-03664

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Lesley Thomson on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many procurators fiscal employed on a permanent contract will be offered (a) early retirement and (b) voluntary redundancy in 2011-12.

Question reference: S4W-02282

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 14 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it proposes to extend football banning orders to junior football matches.

The Joint Action Group set up following the Football Summit in March recommended in its report that we should consider amending the current legislation relating to Football Banning Orders, to support their enhancement and enforcement. Officials are in discussions with the Scottish Football Association and the Scottish Junior Football Association on this issue and we will bring forward any proposals for change in due course.

Question reference: S4W-02281

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to circulate its booklets People with Learning Disabilities and the Criminal Justice System and Adults with Learning Disabilities and the Criminal Justice System.

The People with Learning Disabilities and the Criminal Justice System handbook and its seven associated easy read versions have been widely circulated. Web-links to the electronic versions of the documents have been sent to internal Scottish Government colleagues, representatives of the police, Scottish Courts, Scottish Prison Service, organisations representing solicitors and advocates and groups representing people with learning disabilities. Hard copies of the easy read versions have been requested and sent to a number of other relevant agencies.

Links will also be sent to NHS boards and local authority social work departments and other organisations which will have an interest in these publications.

The publication, Adults with Learning Disabilities and the Criminal Justice System was published in 2009 and was widely distributed at the time.

Question reference: S4W-02279

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Lesley Thomson on 12 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has sent to procurator fiscals regarding the implications of the recent riots in England.

The Scottish Executive has not issued any guidance to procurators fiscal regarding the recent riots. Prosecutorial guidance is solely a matter for the Lord Advocate.

The Lord Advocate issued instructions to police and prosecutors across Scotland on how to deal with offences of public disorder, to ensure that they will be dealt with robustly, consistently and efficiently. The guidance is confidential.

Question reference: S4W-01950

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it would consider creating an organisation similar to the Security Industry Authority in the event of the UK Government abolishing that body.

Question reference: S4W-01949

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4O-00068 by Kenny MacAskill on 23 June 2011 (Official Report, c. 1039), what further information it has received from the UK Government regarding the future of the Security Industry Authority.

Question reference: S4W-02276

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Scottish Government Resilience has met to discuss the implications of the recent riots in England and which (a) ministers and (b) agencies participated in these meetings.

The implications of the recent riots in England were discussed at three meetings of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Scottish Government Resilience. The following ministers participated in those discussions: the First Minister; Cabinet Secretary for Justice, and the Solicitor General.

Officials from the Safer Communities and Cabinet Directorates and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service were also in attendance, along with representatives of the police, the fire and rescue services, local government and a Military Liaison Officer.