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-14932
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 13 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to produce a strategic response to preventing and tackling child sexual abuse, and for what reason it has not produced one to date.
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Question reference: S5W-14956
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-01779 by Michael Matheson on 31 January 2018, when it expects to publish its plans for a single-point of contact model for victim support.
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Question reference: S5W-15009
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when the Sentencing Council plans to publish sentencing guidelines for (a) murder and (b) culpable homicide.
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Question reference: S5W-15069
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 9 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to review the legal rights of grandparents to have access to their grandchildren.
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Question reference: S5W-14645
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the communications and marketing budget for promoting the Scottish Business Pledge is in its Draft Budget for 2018-19.
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Question reference: S5W-14647
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how it measures businesses' progress towards achieving all nine pledges in the Scottish Business Pledge.
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Question reference: S5W-14644
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the communications and marketing budget for promoting the Scottish Business Pledge has been in each of the last three years.
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Question reference: S5W-14646
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is planning a review of the performance of the Scottish Business Pledge.
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Question reference: S5W-14497
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 7 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that the increase in the care allowance will not be absorbed by the universal credit system.
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Question reference: S5W-14954
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by James Wolffe QC on 6 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-14044 by Michael Matheson on 31 January 2018, when it expects the revised Post Mortem Examination Protocol to be published.
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