Skip to main content
Loading…

Chamber and committees

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.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Filter your results Hide all filters

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 17 July 2025
Answer status
Question type

Displaying 301 questions Show Answers

|

Question reference: S4W-01480

  • Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 04 July 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 1 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children charged with a knife-related offence received bail at a (a) high or (b) sheriff court in each of the last three years, broken down by police force area.

Question reference: S4W-01478

  • Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 04 July 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 1 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children aged 14 to 16 have been charged with a knife-related offence in each of the last three years, broken down by police force.

Question reference: S4W-01479

  • Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 04 July 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 1 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children aged 17 and 18 have been charged with a knife-related offence in each of the last three years, broken down by police force.

Question reference: S4W-01481

  • Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 04 July 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 1 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children charged with a knife-related offence subsequently committed a violent offence while on bail or being dealt with by a court or children’s panel, in each of the last three years, broken down by police force area.

Question reference: S4W-01456

  • Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what transitional arrangements are in place to ensure continuity of care for the children affected by closure of St Philip’s Day Care Unit in Airdrie.

Question reference: S4W-01458

  • Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to help staff who lose their jobs as a result of the decision to remove preferred bidder status from St Philip’s Secure Unit in Airdrie secure alternative employment.

Question reference: S4W-01457

  • Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether staff made redundant as a result of the decision to remove preferred bidder status from St Philip’s Secure Unit in Airdrie will be given enhanced redundancy payments.

Question reference: S4W-01455

  • Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what transitional arrangements are in place to ensure continuity of care for the children affected by closure of St Philip’s Residential Unit in Airdrie.

Question reference: S4W-01459

  • Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria Scotland Excel employs when deciding which secure units to award preferred bidder status; how those criteria were arrived at, and which organisation or body was responsible for establishing them.

Question reference: S4W-01454

  • Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2011
  • Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what transitional arrangements are in place to ensure continuity of care for the children affected by closure of St Philip’s Secure Unit in Airdrie.