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: S6W-02341
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 16 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on Sri Lankan police’s human rights record, and what assessment it has made of any risk to Scotland’s international reputation from Police Scotland continuing to train with Sri Lankan police.
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Question reference: S6W-02340
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 16 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to recent reported comments by a Sri Lankan police spokesman that Sri Lankan police would not take cases of intimate partner violence to court nor separate husband and wife in cases that he described as “simple intimidation” and “slight assault”, and what impact this has had on its assessment of the effectiveness of Police Scotland’s training on gender-based violence.
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Question reference: S6W-02576
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 16 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding increasing the scope of the proposed resettlement scheme for refugees from Afghanistan who may be resettled in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-02577
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 16 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to provide support to people from Afghanistan already resident in Scotland, who wish to support family members still in Afghanistan to seek asylum in the UK.
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Question reference: S6W-02575
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 16 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the current situation in Afghanistan, what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding (a) reviewing family reunion rules and (b) indefinitely suspending attempts to return people currently resident in Scotland, who were refused asylum in the UK, back to Afghanistan.
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Question reference: S6W-02359
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 14 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment by the previous SNP administration to maintain environmental standards in line with those in the EU, whether it is still committed to this.
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Question reference: S6W-02358
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 8 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what EU legislation has been passed since the UK's exit from the EU that it plans to keep pace with using the powers in the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021.
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Question reference: S6F-00228
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 September 2021
To ask the First Minister what steps the Scottish Government is taking ahead of COP26 regarding the future of oil and gas exploration and securing a just transition for workers.
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Question reference: S6W-02342
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether Police Scotland being funded by the UK Government to train Sri Lankan police has compromised Scottish Government commitments on human rights.
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Question reference: S6W-02335
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether community policing training delivered by Police Scotland in Sri Lanka includes training on intelligence gathering or operating intelligence databases on communities; whether any technology or software relating to community policing has been transferred to Sri Lanka, and what functions that technology or software has.
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