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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government how many prisons use father and child visit contracts.
To ask the Scottish Government how it evaluates rehabilitation programmes (a) in and (b) out of prison.
To ask the Scottish Government whether families can accumulate prison visits if they live a long distance from the prison.
To ask the Scottish Government how it tackles mental health problems in rural areas.
To ask the Scottish Government how many repeat offenders have repeated rehabilitation programmes in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown by nationality of the prison population.
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding each community justice authority receives under section 27 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment is taking to tackle rural poverty.
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to make prison visiting times child-friendly.
To ask the Scottish Government how many empty (a) council and (b) social houses there are, also broken down by local authority.