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-07911
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what plans the Scottish Prison Service has to change its modern apprenticeship programme.
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Question reference: S5W-07965
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether, following reported comments by Michael Matheson on October 2015, that "short sentences do nothing to stop reoffending in our communities and only result in offenders going in and out of prison time and time again and reoffending upon release", it will provide an update on the actions that it has taken since then to reduce reoffending.
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Question reference: S5W-07716
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Minister for Childcare and Early Years on 2 March 2017 (Official Report, c. 46), for what reason the minister will chair the National Child Protection Leadership Group, in light of the recommendation by the Child Protection Systems Review that the group "should report and account to Scottish Ministers".
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Question reference: S5W-07695
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government which (a) organisations and (b) individuals can access data under the current electronic monitoring scheme and whether (i) their and (ii) other's access will change following the consultation, Electronic Monitoring in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-07696
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what international evidence was considered by the consultation, Electronic Monitoring in Scotland; what percentage of the remand population in these examples was subject to such monitoring; how long such monitoring had been used in each country, and what feedback it received regarding the effectiveness of it.
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Question reference: S5W-07715
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Minister for Childcare and Early Years on 2 March 2017 (Official Report, c. 46), for what reason it is developing separate national child protection policies and plans; what the difference is between these, and whether it will consider publishing both in a single document.
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Question reference: S5W-07692
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government which stakeholders it invited to engage in the consultation, Electronic Monitoring in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-07711
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Minister for Childcare and Early Years on 2 March 2017 (Official Report, c. 46), when the "evaluation of the early work" of the programme of action on neglect will be reported to him, and whether these findings will be put in the public domain.
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Question reference: S5W-07694
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it helps people break out of the reoffending cycle.
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Question reference: S5W-07689
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its response to the consultation, Electronic Monitoring in Scotland.
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