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-20482
- Asked by: Joan McAlpine, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 20 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how “catfishing” could be appropriately punished as a crime.
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Question reference: S5W-20479
- Asked by: Joan McAlpine, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 20 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will update the Child Protection Improvement Programme to include strategies to prevent children from being victims of “catfishing”.
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Question reference: S5W-20481
- Asked by: Joan McAlpine, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 20 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will make “catfishing” illegal.
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Question reference: S5W-20478
- Asked by: Joan McAlpine, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 20 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what measures are in place to protect children and adults from being “catfished”.
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Question reference: S5W-20480
- Asked by: Joan McAlpine, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 20 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what research it has undertaken on how “catfishing” takes place.
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Question reference: S5O-02754
- Asked by: Joan McAlpine, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what work it is doing to ensure that all public bodies are fulfilling their public sector equality duty with regard specifically to the protected characteristic of “sex” as represented in the Equality Act 2010.
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Question reference: S5F-02907
- Asked by: Joan McAlpine, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 December 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 December 2018
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the outcome of the recent European Council summit.
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Question reference: S5O-02684
- Asked by: Joan McAlpine, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the financial implications would be for the NHS in Scotland of a no deal Brexit.
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Question reference: S5W-19769
- Asked by: Joan McAlpine, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 13 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether the UK Government has engaged with it regarding its reported plan to keep the whole of the UK in a temporary customs union.
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Question reference: S5O-02540
- Asked by: Joan McAlpine, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 November 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting the Rural Parliament, which is being held in Stranraer.
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