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
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Question reference: S5W-07712
- 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 it expects to introduce the draft legislation on the new definition and criminalisation of abuse and neglect of children.
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Question reference: S5W-07687
- 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 impact the expansion of GPS and alcohol monitoring technologies will have on the daily cost of monitoring (a) overall and (b) per person compared with the cost for custodial sentences.
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Question reference: S5W-07710
- 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), whether the consultation on the proposed legislation for a new definition and criminalisation of abuse and neglect of children will give respondents the opportunity to comment on the appropriateness of removing the defence of justifiable assault.
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Question reference: S5W-07693
- 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 plans to carry out a risk assessment on the use of GPS for electronic monitoring.
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Question reference: S5W-07718
- 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), in light of the minister's comment that "new legislation will be brought before this session of Parliament introducing a new definition and criminal offence of abuse and neglect of children", whether the minister will reconsider his response to question S5W-03999 in which said that the Scottish Government has “no plans to bring forward legislation to repeal existing legal defences for parents in relation to physical punishment”.
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Question reference: S5W-07713
- 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), what financial support it will provide to the child protection improvement programme measures.
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Question reference: S5W-07714
- 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 national child protection policy will be published and what support it will provide for this.
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Question reference: S5W-07691
- 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 many people have been subject to electronic monitoring in each local authority area in each year since 2013.
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Question reference: S5W-07690
- 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 many people it anticipates will be monitored in the expanded electronic monitoring scheme.
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Question reference: S5W-07719
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by Mark McDonald on 2 March 2017 (Official Report, c.46) that it will develop a flagging system on the National Vulnerable Persons Database, before creating a National Child Protection Database, what access rights to information parents and guardians will have in the interim arrangements; which (a) organisations, (b) public bodies, and (c) government bodies will have access to this data; what the data retention policy will be, and what information will be recorded for each child.
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