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: S5O-03775
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Destination Orkney and Orkney Islands Council about the future needs of the tourism sector.
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Question reference: S5W-26048
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it maintains data showing the number of hours that inmates spend in their cells, and whether it will publish any data collected.
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Question reference: S5W-26049
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how frequently it believes that inmates of Scottish prisons spend “22 to 23 hours per day in their cells”, as reported by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).
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Question reference: S5W-26052
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the finding of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), in relation to Scottish prisons, that “cumulatively a lack of access to association and activities meant that in practice segregated inmates were deprived of regular meaningful human contact rendering the segregation akin to solitary confinement”.
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Question reference: S5W-26050
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the finding by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture that in Scotland's prisons “in practice, recreation time was the exception rather than the norm. Overall, remand prisoners were getting, at best, two hours unlocked from their cells per day.”
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Question reference: S5W-26058
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many transfers have been made from prisons in Scotland to Rampton Hospital in each of the last 10 years.
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Question reference: S5W-26053
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the finding by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) that there has been a considerable deterioration in the presence of GPs in Scottish prisons, how many GPs have (a) been employed to work in or (b) attended prisons in each year since 2012-13.
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Question reference: S5W-26055
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government which prisons have officials qualified to administer first aid overnight.
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Question reference: S5W-26057
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) average and (b) longest time spent on remand by individuals was in in each year since 2014-15.
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Question reference: S5W-26059
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the findings and recommendations made by NHS Chief Executives in relation to female pathways across the forensic mental health estate.
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