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-31269
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the most appropriate mechanism for tackling misogynistic hate crime is through secondary, rather than primary, legislation.
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Question reference: S5O-04554
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it remains committed to publishing an alternative to the annual GERS report.
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Question reference: S5W-31006
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it plans to publish the final report of the Independent Review of Complaints Handling, Investigations and Misconduct Issues in Relation to Policing by Dame Angiolini, in light of her preliminary report stating on page 15 that publication of the final report would take place in the summer of 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-31024
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 25 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the scientific advice that has informed its COVID-19 route map planning regarding gyms and indoor sports.
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Question reference: S5W-30869
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 14 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether, further to the answer to question S5W-30843 by Humza Yousaf on 21 July 2020, it will publish the (a) review of health measures that has been carried out and (b) evidence that changed to enable Spain to be put onto the exemption list.
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Question reference: S5W-30667
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that drug-related deaths have increased during the COVID-19 lockdown, and whether Police Scotland will publish this data.
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Question reference: S5W-30673
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 11 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of statistics that show 1,757 incidents of assault were recorded in prisons in 2018-19, an increase of 45% compared with 2017-18, how it plans to tackle this growing problem of prisoner violence.
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Question reference: S5W-30671
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 11 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to tackle the consumption of unauthorised substances in prisons, which reportedly tripled between 2017-18 and 2018-19.
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Question reference: S5W-30670
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 11 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many prison officers have been tested for COVID-19, and how many tested (a) positive, (b) negative and (c) inconclusive.
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Question reference: S5W-30678
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 6 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many firefighters have been tested for COVID-19, and how many have tested (a) positive, (b) negative and (c) inconclusive.