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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve community payback order completion rates.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making with the Victim Surcharge Fund, and when it will become operational.
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that the Scottish Prison Service explicitly takes the safety and welfare of victims and their families into account when making temporary release decisions.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it or the Scottish Prison Service has provided guidance to prisons on how to detect and respond to attempts to convey drug-laced paper.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on ruling out implementing restorative justice as an alternative to prosecution and to allow it to run only in parallel with the current criminal justice processes.
To ask the Scottish Government what restorative justice services are offered by each local authority, and what analysis it has carried out of the effectiveness of these.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase the use of exclusion zones for prisoners on temporary release.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken since September 2018 to allow animals taken into the protection of the Scottish SPCA or local authorities to be rehomed more quickly and efficiently.
To ask the Scottish Government when the Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning last met members or representatives of the Newtonhill community to discuss Site Op1, Park Place, Newtonhill, Aberdeenshire, AB39 3PG, which is the subject of planning appeal PPA-110-2372 relating to 121 detached, semi-detached and terraced two-storey properties, and when he last visited the site.
To ask the Scottish Government how many colposcopes have been installed since March 2017, and how many there will be by April 2020, broken down by NHS board.