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-22560
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 3 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions or correspondence it has had with Police Scotland regarding the operational impact of the £5.4 million shortfall in the budget allocation for digital evidence platform in 2019-20 as identified in the Scottish Police Authority Board Papers of 28 March 2019.
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Question reference: S5W-22559
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 3 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions or correspondence it has had with Police Scotland regarding the operational impact of the £4.2 million shortfall in the budget allocation for business change and management programme in 2019-20 as identified in the Scottish Police Authority Board Papers of 28 March 2019.
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Question reference: S5W-22839
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 26 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 2 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how its work with the National Scottish Steering Group for Educational Psychologists has progressed, and whether it is able to provide any information on higher education institutions that are willing to provide trainee placements in 2019.
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Question reference: S5W-22496
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 1 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many times in the last year an electronic tag was removed without authorisation on the grounds of medical emergency.
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Question reference: S5W-22343
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kezia Dugdale on 26 April 2019
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, further to the answer to question S5O-03051 by Kezia Dugdale on 21 March 2019, and the reference to its review of how it supports MSPs in their role as employers, what role it has in assisting MSPs engage and remunerate interns, and whether it would consider making funds available to ensure that all interns engaged in MSP's offices and across the parliamentary estate are paid.
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Question reference: S5W-22591
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2019
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason licences are not available to catch American signal crayfish.
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Question reference: S5W-22545
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 April 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the cost has been for the contracts to run (a) HMP Addiewell and (b) HMP Kilmarnock in each year since 2010-11.
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Question reference: S5O-03159
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 April 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the announcement that SQA staff are to be balloted for industrial action.
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Question reference: S5W-22546
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 April 2019
To ask the Scottish Government on what dates since May 2016 the Cabinet Secretary for Justice has requested that the Scottish Sentencing Council should prepare or review sentencing guidelines, broken down by offence.
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Question reference: S5W-22215
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 5 April 2019
To ask the Scottish Government on what dates since May 2016 the Cabinet Secretary for Justice has met the Scottish Sentencing Council.
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