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.
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To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of whether looked-after children are inappropriately placed as a result of funding issues.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been allocated to secure units and to (a) private and (b) charitable residential schools in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on caring for looked-after children in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers it has to intervene when concerns are raised regarding private and charitable residential schools and secure units involved in caring for looked-after children.
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to electrify the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts railway line and what (a) the timescale is and (b) estimate it has made of the cost.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police stations will have 24-hour cover in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013 and how many have had such cover in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of plans made by police authorities to close stations in each of the next five years.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the policing budget is for (a) 2012 and (b) 2013 and what it has been in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police stations will operate on a part-time basis in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013, broken down by those operating (i) part-time each day and (ii) some days in the week, and how many have operated on this basis in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police stations will lose their 24-hour cover status and how many with part-time cover will have their hours reduced, in each of the next five years.