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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.