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-01353
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether senior Police Scotland officers were aware in 2013 of the legal requirement to delete all automatic number plate recognition data over two years old; whether they did so, and what the reason is for their position on this matter.
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Question reference: S5W-01356
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce specific legislation to improve the management of automatic number plate recognition data held by Police Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-01402
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to inform and engage the public regarding the use of armed police and what its response is to the suggestion made on Radio Scotland on 12 July 2016 that “we have got to have an informed debate" regarding the operation of armed officers.
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Question reference: S5W-01423
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the extent to which brain injuries should be taken into account as a mitigating factor in sentencing.
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Question reference: S5W-01348
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government on what statutory basis Police Scotland has collected a reported 852,507,524 number plate records and whether this process was debated by the Parliament.
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Question reference: S5W-01349
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether Police Scotland (a) has consulted or (b) will consult the Information Commissioner's Office on its automatic number plate recognition retention policies and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S5W-01354
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Police Scotland automatic number plate recognition standard operating procedure document published in March 2015 made reference to the amount of archive data held.
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Question reference: S5W-01351
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what bodies have access to information collected by Police Scotland via the automatic number plate recognition system.
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Question reference: S5W-01352
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government when information held by Police Scotland's automatic number plate recognition system dating back longer than two years will be deleted.
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Question reference: S5W-01421
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 8 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to develop a 6 to 8 bed low secure brain injury rehabilitation unit.