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: S4W-15091
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 30 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what services Education Scotland will provide at HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont.
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Question reference: S4W-15092
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 30 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether Education Scotland will be responsible for (a) maintaining and (b) improving standards in education and training at HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont and, if so, what targets (i) it and (ii) the Scottish Prison Service has set for these.
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Question reference: S4W-15093
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 30 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what costs are involved in funding the work of Education Scotland in HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont and how those costs will be met.
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Question reference: S4O-02114
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 15 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with the Aberdeen and Dundee bids for UK City of Culture 2017.
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Question reference: S4W-14578
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 14 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government on what date the Scottish Prison Service will launch its piloting of mobile phone blocking technology and which two prisons have been chosen for the pilot.
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Question reference: S4W-14579
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 14 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what company the Scottish Prison Service has selected to provide the technology for its mobile phone blocking pilot and what others were considered in the selection process.
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Question reference: S4W-12624
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 2 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-11856 by Kenny MacAskill on 23 January 2013, what percentage of all fiscal fines, including those discharged, has been paid or is on track to be paid.
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