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.
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To ask the Scottish Government whether Scottish Enterprise attaches conditions to public funding provided to defence companies with a view to ensuring that such funding is not used towards the production of arms and other defence equipment or the supply of arms and other defence equipment to countries engaged in human rights violations.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that home efficiency targets are delivered in the (a) private rented sector and (b) social rented sector, without tenants having to take financial responsibility for the targets being met.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with (a) Police Scotland and (b) the Scottish Police Authority, regarding the policing of protests during COP26.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that tenants’ unions will be represented on the proposed tenant participation panel.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with (a) climate activist groups and (b) environmental organisations, regarding their concerns about the policing of protests during COP26.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with tenants’ unions, including Living Rent, regarding its proposed rented sector strategy.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Police Scotland on the reported use of policing tactics such as kettling during COP26.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps were taken to ensure that Police Scotland had full oversight of the actions of police officers who were deployed to Glasgow from the rest of the UK during COP26.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it had with (a) the UK Government and (b) other international parties during COP26, regarding the introduction of an offshore training passport.
To ask the Scottish Government whether live facial recognition will be used by (a) Police Scotland and (b) other security organisations as part of COP26 policing operations.