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 steps it is taking to ensure that welfare policies incentivise work.
To ask the Scottish Government, to reduce violence and drug harm, what additional investment it will make in secure accommodation and in-prison rehabilitation.
To ask the Scottish Government what evaluation it has made of the outcomes of take-home naloxone and opioid-substitution programmes in prisons, including relapse and re-offending rates post-release.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of recent reports regarding the quality of police officer uniforms, what assessment it has made of the impact of poor-quality uniforms on officer safety, morale and operational effectiveness.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to ensure that the lessons identified in the Edinburgh trams inquiry are being applied to future infrastructure projects.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of it declaring a housing emergency, how it will respond to the reported loss of 12,000 homes from the landlord register since May 2023.
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with the UK Government regarding reform of the energy profits levy.
To ask the Scottish Government what alternatives to custody it is developing for persistent low-level offending, to alleviate prison pressure while protecting the public.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will guarantee that no police officer has to purchase elements of their own kit.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made on the impact on Scotland's economy of the report by Offshore Energy UK suggesting that, without replacing the Energy Profits Levy in the next year with a profits-based mechanism to encourage investment and output, North Sea oil and gas production could disappear “within years, not decades”.