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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

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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 25 December 2024
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Question reference: S5W-24749

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when the Equally Safe Multi-agency Centre for Victims of Gender-based Violence will open.

Question reference: S5W-24724

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) victims and (b) families of victims of life-sentenced prisoners have met the Scottish Prison Service ahead of temporary release in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S5W-24740

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 6 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when it will introduce a family law bill.

Question reference: S5W-24742

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it considers its Miners Strike Review to be relevant to the Victims Taskforce.

Question reference: S5W-24745

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what sanctions and rewards prisons use to support and encourage prisoners in engaging with drug treatment and abstaining from drug misuse.

Question reference: S5W-24716

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many police officers are funded by each local authority.

Question reference: S5W-24734

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on life licence conditions being relaxed after an offender has been out of jail for a certain period of time.

Question reference: S5W-24758

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its police officer number statistics do not provide the number of officers (a) on long-term leave and (b) paid wholly or in part by ports, airports or local authorities.

Question reference: S5W-24755

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what its response to the claim by the Channel 4 News Fact Check that “it's hard to say how many police officers are actually 'on the beat' in Scotland today.”

Question reference: S5W-24715

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the level of policing service that has been provided to rural areas in the last year.