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-23613
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many people are currently imprisoned in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6T-01709
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the roll-out and use of tasers within Police Scotland, in light of reports that they have been used 131 times, and discharged nine times, against children since 2018.
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Question reference: S6W-23229
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Dorothy Bain on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many convictions of corporations there have ever been for the (a) common law offence of culpable homicide and (b) statutory offence of corporate homicide, and which corporations were convicted.
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Question reference: S6W-23227
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Dorothy Bain on 12 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many prosecutions have ever been brought against corporations for the (a) common law offence of culpable homicide and (b) statutory offence of corporate homicide, and which corporations these were against.
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Question reference: S6W-23228
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 11 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to potential reforms of homicide law in the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S6W-23226
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 11 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to potential reforms of corporate criminal liability.
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Question reference: S6W-23230
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 11 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many prosecutions for (a) murder and (b) culpable homicide have been brought against healthcare professionals in Scotland in the last 10 years relating to the discharge of their duties or exercise of their powers treating patients, and, of these, how many resulted in a conviction.
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Question reference: S6W-23592
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 11 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) men and (b) women have (i) been prosecuted, (ii) been prosecuted and convicted and (iii) not been prosecuted but have received direct measures for TV licence fee non-payment in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-23185
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 5 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had regarding the content of COVID-19 warnings used in official communications, in particular in relation to the emphasis on "clean hands" and "two metres distance" and the lack of mention of ventilation, since the emergence of evidence that COVID-19 primarily spreads via aerosols and not fomites.
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Question reference: S6W-23186
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 5 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had regarding the presence of COVID-19 warnings in official communications since the final lifting of restrictions.
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