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-25101
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether victim support organisations will have the power to demand changes to criminal justice bodies’ annual standards of service for victims and witnesses.
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Question reference: S5W-25107
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will introduce the Defamation and Malicious Publications (Scotland) Bill.
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Question reference: S5W-25095
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will publish the independent jury research report.
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Question reference: S5W-25097
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide detail on the work that it plans to consider the sustainability of policing.
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Question reference: S5W-25103
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether its calculation that £9.5 million a year more has been invested in Criminal Justice Social Work since 2015-16 is based on cash or real terms.
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Question reference: S5W-25105
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will commence the sections of the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 that deal with the home detention curfew regime.
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Question reference: S5W-25106
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will set out a long-term vision for the justice system.
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Question reference: S5W-25098
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will establish an independently-chaired group to ensure that police powers allow for the use of technology to make policing more effective and efficient, and when its terms of reference will be set.
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Question reference: S5W-25104
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has made available for bail supervision.
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Question reference: S5W-25102
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether the fire service's Youth Engagement Scheme has replaced the Cadet Scheme.
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