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-04151
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 November 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 30 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration is given to children when considering changes to the justice outcomes of the Making Justice Work programme.
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Question reference: S4W-04154
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 November 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 30 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration was given to children when developing the benefits framework of the Making Justice Work programme.
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Question reference: S4W-04153
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 November 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 30 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration is given to children in the running of project (a) 2, (b) 4 and (c) 5 of the Making Justice Work programme.
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Question reference: S4W-04116
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 November 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 30 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to increase the age of criminal responsibility.
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Question reference: S4W-04047
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 November 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 25 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that the revised planning fees structure will encourage development and land-use change that benefits biodiversity and climate change.
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Question reference: S4W-04050
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 November 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 25 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that attendees at the community engagement event to be held in November are representative of the concerns of both geographically defined communities and communities of interest.
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Question reference: S4W-04049
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 November 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 25 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will select invitees to the community engagement stakeholder event to be held in November.
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Question reference: S4W-04048
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 November 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 25 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that the community engagement stakeholder event to be held in November will take into account communities of interest as well as geographically defined communities.
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Question reference: S4W-04046
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on an automatic presumption of equal contact between the mother and father of a child on marriage breakdown and whether it plans to amend the law.
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Question reference: S4W-04051
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 November 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of metal theft have been reported and how many people have been (a) charged and (b) convicted in each of the last five years for which information is available.
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