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: S6O-01213
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 9 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what efforts it is making to assist those who work in the nuclear energy sector to transition to suitable alternative employment.
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Question reference: S6T-00713
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 May 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the anticipated delivery date of the ferries under construction at Ferguson Marine, in light of recent reports that the number of faults in the two vessels has risen.
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Question reference: S6W-08142
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 10 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many local authority social work departments have developed their own policy to manage risk and to respond to and track missing children, as stated at paragraph 621 of the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland (2014).
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Question reference: S6W-08143
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 4 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many local authorities have developed their own multi-agency, collaborative missing persons strategy and protocols to respond to and track missing children.
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Question reference: S6T-00659
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 April 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reported planned boycott of solicitors taking on summary cases brought under section 1 of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018, from 3 May 2022.
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Question reference: S6F-00962
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022
To ask the First Minister what immediate safeguarding measures will be in place to ensure that arrivals from Ukraine are protected from organised criminal activity, human trafficking and exploitation.
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Question reference: S6W-07230
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 25 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to recent statistics from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service stating that the courts backlog at the end of January 2022 reached a reported record high of 43,606 trials.
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Question reference: S6W-07364
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 23 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to lay commencement regulations for the provisions of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2021 that are not yet in force.
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Question reference: S6W-07231
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its estimate is of the reduction in offenders going to jail as a result of its policy on the presumption against short-term sentences.
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Question reference: S6W-07169
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06718 by Keith Brown on 2 March 2022, whether it will provide the information requested regarding precisely how many hubs for regional restorative justice services it plans to establish by 2023, and for what reason it did not provide this information in its answer.