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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: S6W-07210

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 17 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been prosecuted for riding an e-scooter in the last 12 months.

The Scottish Government criminal proceedings database does not hold information on the specific type of powered transporters involved in charges prosecuted in Scottish Courts.

Please note: The Criminal Proceedings database is not a live system and the latest available information is for 2019-20 financial year. Information for 2020-21 will not be available until publication of the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2020-21 Statistical Bulletin. This is planned to be published later in 2022.

The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at: https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/ForthcomingPubs

Question reference: S6W-06992

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what support it is providing to young people who have applied for a free bus pass under the Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel Scheme, but are yet to receive their pass and are paying for bus travel.

Question reference: S6W-06993

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when the Transport Scotland Fair Fares review will be published in full.

The Fair Fares Review is part of a broad package of work being undertaken to ensure that there is a viable and sustainable transport system for the future. As part of this work we are taking forward activities to facilitate a safe and confident return to public transport as more people begin to travel between their home and their place of work, and as demand for leisure travel also increases.

The Fair Fares Review is being taken to forward to address a range of issues for public transport alongside our activities to support Covid Recovery. The recommendations and findings of the Fair Fares Review will be provided as they emerge on an ongoing basis throughout the review.

Question reference: S6W-06991

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how many people have applied for a free bus pass through the Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel Scheme, and how many passes have been issued.

The Improvement Service (IS), which manages the application process, has confirmed that at close of business on 15 March 2022 there had been a total of 226,484 online applications submitted.

Because the offline application process is undertaken by local authorities using multiple routes, including schools, libraries and council offices, there are practical challenges currently to providing an accurate national picture of offline applications. However, it is possible to provide details of how many applications in both settings have been processed.

By close of business on Tuesday 15 March 2022, IS confirmed that a total of 187,345 National Entitlement Cards with free bus travel had been produced and dispatched. This total includes cards generated from both online and offline applications.

In addition, by the end of 14 March 2022, 4,696 travel products have been added to existing National Entitlement Cards through the Transport Scot Collect App which was launched on 28 February 2022.

Question reference: S6W-07000

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 16 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason Transport Scotland uses kilometres in its publications instead of miles.

Question reference: S6T-00577

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that Ferguson Marine is competitive, in light of the reported decision to award the contract to build two new CalMac ferries to the Turkish ship builder, Cemre Marin Endustri.

Question reference: S6W-06745

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 10 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether eligible persons who have experienced a delay in receiving their free bus pass having applied under the Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel Scheme will be compensated.

Question reference: S6W-06699

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Current Status: Answered by George Adam on 4 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to conduct its consultation regarding changes to freedom of information law in Scotland.

The Scottish Government is currently developing its consultation exercise, to seek views on future legislative change to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. This follows the report of the former Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee in the last session of the Parliament, on post-legislative scrutiny of the Act. We will announce further information about the consultation as soon as we are in a position to do so.

Question reference: S6O-00853

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how the country's transport system can help to improve economic growth.

Question reference: S6O-00803

Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with rail unions regarding the nationalisation of ScotRail.