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 Executive what contingencies it has if the Scottish people vote against independence.
To ask the Scottish Executive, if Scotland becomes independent, whether it will subsequently be possible to rejoin the United Kingdom if a majority of the Scottish people demands it.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to tackle possible increases in human trafficking to Scotland that might arise from the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason it is proposing to abolish prison visiting committees.
To ask the Scottish Executive what support has been provided to help employees of Remploy find alternative employment.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the commissioning dates were for each of the 330 school building or renovation projects completed in the last parliamentary session.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish Prison Service staff are trained on child protection issues that might arise during prison visits and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on reports that 70.4% of prisoners at HMP Barlinnie do not have access to vocational or educational classes and whether it considers that this contributes to 42.4% prisoners from that establishment re-offending within two years of release.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to reduce the number of remand prisoners.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to fund improvements to the reception area at HMP Barlinnie.