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: S5W-08510
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 26 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-01982 by Michael Matheson on 9 September 2016, whether it will publish annual information in future on the number of (a) times Tasers are used and (b) complaints that are made by the public regarding the use of Tasers.
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Question reference: S5W-08511
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 25 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03484 by Michael Matheson on 27 October 2016, for what reason data on the use of spit hoods by Police Scotland is not routinely collected, monitored or evaluated, and whether it will direct Police Scotland to do so.
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Question reference: S5W-08624
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 25 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to conduct a review of the regulation of legal services and, if so, when it will carry this out.
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Question reference: S5W-08621
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 20 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what support is available to (a) solicitors and (b) clients following the decision by the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission to increase the levy paid by solicitors by 12.5%, and what in consider the impact of the increase will be on them.
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Question reference: S5W-08622
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 20 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what representation it has made to the (a) Scottish Legal Complaints Commission, (b) Law Society of Scotland and (c) Faculty of Advocates regarding the 12.5% increase in the levy paid by solicitors by to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission.
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Question reference: S5W-08620
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 20 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the decision by the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission to increase the levy paid by solicitors by 12.5%, and what impact it considers this will have on (a) the solicitors and (b) clients.
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Question reference: S5O-00865
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it supports companies that wish to reduce their environmental impact.
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Question reference: S5F-01166
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 April 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 April 2017
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to reports of sexually exploitative behaviour in the private rented housing sector.
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Question reference: S5W-08153
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 30 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been spent on (a) the maintenance of and (b) upgrades to trunk roads in each year since 2007, broken down by road.
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Question reference: S5W-08152
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many accidents there have been on the A92 between Dunfermline and Dundee in each year since 2007, broken down by (a) severity and (b) location.