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-07274
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06417 by Michael Matheson on 3 February 2017, what alternative locations there are to prisons for young offenders on remand to be held overnight.
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Question reference: S5W-07272
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06417 by Michael Matheson on 3 February 2017, in how many cases a court decision was made to prevent a young offender on remand to be held overnight in an adult prison in each year since 2012.
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Question reference: S5W-07275
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06417 by Michael Matheson on 3 February 2017, how many young offenders on remand have been placed in each prison since 2010, broken down by those being held for (a) up to one night, (b) two to three nights, (c) four to five nights and (d) six or more nights.
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Question reference: S5W-07273
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06417 by Michael Matheson on 3 February 2017, whether the reasons that young offenders on remand are held in a prison overnight are (a) statutory or (b) non-statutory; under what circumstances young offenders are on remand in prisons; whether there has been a policy or guideline change in this regard since 2010 and, if so, what the reason for this change was.
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Question reference: S5W-07233
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-00157, S5W-00158, S5W-00159, S5W-00160, S5W-00161 and S5W-00162 by Fergus Ewing on 1 June 2016, whether it will provide an update on (a) what progress is being made with and (b) how it will ensure that organisations, businesses and charities will receive support from, the investment to support island and rural produce that it pledged in the SNP Manifesto for the Islands.
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Question reference: S5W-07232
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-02951 by Fergus Ewing on 3 October 2016, whether it will publish the findings of its analysis, and what subsequent steps it has taken.
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Question reference: S5W-07698
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has provided toward supervised bail services in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-07642
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions and correspondence it has had with local authorities in the last six months regarding tackling fuel poverty; what agreements were reached, and whether it will publish any correspondence and minutes of meetings on this issue.
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Question reference: S5W-07781
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government which stakeholders have been notified about the creation of the rural economy hub, and how they will engage with the hub in future.
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Question reference: S5W-07701
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the statement in the publication, On Board: A Guide for Board Members of Public Bodies in Scotland, that the "Chief Executive of the public body is employed and appointed by the Board (with approval of Scottish Ministers)", whether it considers that the recommendation in Professor Crerar's report, Proposals on Governance and the Creation of a Strategic Board, that ministers should appoint members to the proposed Strategic Board, as well as agency chairs, (a) will have an impact on the autonomy of the agencies and (b) is consistent with the guide.