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-03738
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on north east road infrastructure projects.
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Question reference: S5W-25888
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 1 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what specific financial support is offered to older people to offset any rise in the cost of (a) heating expenses during winter and (b) council tax.
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Question reference: S5O-03728
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to replace HMP Barlinnie.
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Question reference: S5O-03691
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what steps Social Security Scotland has taken to mitigate the risk of fraud.
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Question reference: S5W-25477
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 9 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-25103 by Humza Yousaf on 19 September 2019, whether the calculation that £9.5 million a year more has been invested in Criminal Justice Social Work since 2015-16 is based on cash or real terms.
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Question reference: S5W-25476
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by James Wolffe QC on 8 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-24721 by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2019, whether the Lord Advocate in his role as head of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service will rule out implementing restorative justice as an alternative to prosecution, allowing it to run only in parallel with existing criminal justice processes.
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Question reference: S5W-25469
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-25045 by Michael Matheson on 23 September 2019, by what date it will bring forward the relevant statutory procedures for the improvement scheme.
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Question reference: S5W-25267
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Scottish Prison Service has not published its annual report and accounts for 2018-19, and by what date it will do so.
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Question reference: S5W-24835
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to comments by Sheriff Peter Paterson who claims that its official guidance against short-term sentences limited his options and ruled out a jail term for the gamekeeper, Alan Wilson.
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Question reference: S5O-03601
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what criteria it is using to determine where the £160 million of convergence funding is allocated.