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: S5W-20898
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20569 by Humza Yousaf on 9 January 2019, whether it will confirm if any testing is now carried out in the prison estate for new psychoactive substances, in light of it setting out the then position in response to question S5W-05991 on 24 January 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-20899
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20570 by Humza Yousaf on 9 January 2019, whether it will list the strategic, tactical and technological responses that the Scottish Prison Services uses to reduce drug use in prisons.
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Question reference: S5W-20462
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when it became aware of the reported error in the settlement business case for the departing chief executive of NHS Tayside.
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Question reference: S5W-20713
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 10 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government under what circumstances it would rule out full British Transport Police (BTP) integration with Police Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-20571
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 9 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government which prisons provide body-worn cameras for (a) officers and (b) staff.
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Question reference: S5W-20569
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 9 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government which prisons test for new psychoactive substances.
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Question reference: S5W-20570
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 9 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government which prisons use (a) the Rapiscan drug test system and (b) other similar drug-test technology.
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Question reference: S5W-20572
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 7 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government which prisons use dogs to detect drugs.
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Question reference: S5W-20464
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 24 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) process and (b) timescale is for the public to be notified when an NHS board moves up a stage in the board escalation process.
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Question reference: S5W-20466
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 21 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether there will be periodic review points during the new three-year financial period that NHS boards will follow.
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