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 whether it is transferring (a) short and (b) long-term prisoners from HMP Barlinnie in order to reduce overcrowding and, if so, whether it is considering taking action to speed up this process.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used the Independent Learning Account in the last financial year.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 330 school building projects completed during the last parliamentary session were planned or started before May 2007.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to standardise the training of foster carers under the remit of Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to tackle overcrowding in prisons.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the title of the First Minister would be in an independent Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many foster carers are in place and how many new foster carers have been recruited in each year since 2007, broken down by local authority.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much is spent on training foster carers by each local authority.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of time is from diagnosis of lupus to treatment and what specialist lupus services there are.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will use evidence-based data to assess intervention programmes arising from health reforms and, if so, who will collect and evaluate this.