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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-02271

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 15 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the call on 30 August 2016 from the Existing Homes Alliance for the forthcoming budget to significantly increase public investment in home energy efficiency measures.

This Government has allocated almost £650 million since 2009 and, as announced in the programme for government we will make available, through Scotland’s Energy Efficiency Programme, a further half a billion pounds over the next four years, meaning over £1 billion will have been committed by 2021 to tackle fuel poverty and improve energy efficiency.

The programme for government also announced a further £10 million for domestic energy efficiency helping make Scotland’s homes cheaper to heat and reducing the costs of energy bills for householders. Including this investment, in 2016 we are making available £113 million to improve the energy efficiency of Scotland’s homes, building on the one million energy efficiency measures delivered to almost one million Scottish households since 2008.

Question reference: S5W-02227

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many freedom of information requests it is dealing with, and what percentage of these has not been answered within 20 working days of receipt.

Question reference: S5O-00148

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 15 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to address concerns regarding the recruitment and retention of crew members in retained fire stations in rural and island areas.

Question reference: S5W-02293

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many British Transport Police officers will be equipped with conductive energy devices at major rail stations in Scotland, broken down by policing division.

Question reference: S5W-02292

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what training and guidance will be provided to British Transport Police officers equipped with conductive energy devices at major rail stations in Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-02296

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what steps are being taken to inform and engage the public regarding the use of conductive energy devices by British Transport Police officers at major rail stations in Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-02294

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when operational deployment of conductive energy devices to British Transport Police officers at major rail stations in Scotland will commence.

Question reference: S5W-02302

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what percentage of suspects of crime have been offered the Solicitor Access Recording Form in each year since 2013-14.

Police Scotland do not currently hold this information centrally. However the Solicitor Access Recording Form is provided to every individual detained under section 14 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, or is arrested but not charged with an offence, and being detained in custody (i.e. held in custody, not detained under section 14) at a police station for the purposes of being questioned in connection with an offence.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-02299 on 14 September 2016 for more detail about the national custody system. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

Question reference: S5W-02300

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Lord Advocate has developed guidelines in relation to suspect interviews, in line with recommendations in the Post-corroboration Safeguards Review.

Question reference: S5W-02301

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether Police Scotland has revised the Solicitor Access Recording Form and, if so, what changes have been made, and when the revised form will available at suspects of crime interviews.

The Solicitor Access Recording Form has not been recently revised, but the process is currently under review and will continue until Part one of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 is commenced in summer 2017. The Solicitor Access Recording Form will not be necessary once the National Custody System has been introduced on commencement of Part one of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016.