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-19360
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 30 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many public charging points for electric vehicles have been installed in fire stations.
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Question reference: S5W-19363
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what changes are being made to clinical IT systems in prisons; which prisons’ systems are being updated, and how much this will cost.
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Question reference: S5W-19279
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports of a lack of objective good practice benchmarks and lack of concrete measurements of efficiency throughout the Scottish college sector, and whether it would consider the merits of the benchmarking scheme run in England and Wales.
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Question reference: S5W-19278
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reimbursing those colleges that harmonised their terms and conditions at the point of, or following regionalisation, in the event that money is given to those colleges that did not do so, in order to cover their harmonisation.
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Question reference: S5W-19102
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had with (a) Police Scotland and (b) the Scottish Police Authority regarding the outline business case of the Police Scotland digital, data and ICT strategy.
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Question reference: S5W-19371
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether a victim's commissioner directly engaging with and listening to the views of victims and witnesses, and who is tasked with helping to improve victim services and support, is worthy of consideration.
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Question reference: S5W-19357
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether its restorative justice action plan will include services that divert offenders from prosecution.
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Question reference: S5W-19277
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 25 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is actively investigating the T-Level grade introduced in England and Wales and, if so, what its position is on this.
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Question reference: S5O-02495
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what budget it expects Social Security Scotland to have for IT for the rest of the parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S5W-19362
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how much it will spend on research into public attitudes to, and knowledge of, key resilience advice, and the differing community experiences of severe weather across Scotland.