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 how many inmates have died in each prison in each year since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) homicides, (b) culpable homicides, (c) attempted homicides, (d) inmate-on-inmate assaults and (e) inmate-on-prison officer assaults have been recorded in each prison in each year since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) deaths by suicide, (b) attempted suicides and (c) incidences of self-harm have been recorded in each prison in each year since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of all expenditure (a) by the Scottish Prison Service and (b) on the prison estate in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has cost to appoint a new Chief Constable and whether it will provide a breakdown of spending.
To ask the Scottish Government what the budget for drug treatment and rehabilitation services has been in year since 2003.
To ask the Scottish Government how many qualified instructors have been employed by the Scottish Prison Service in each year since 2011, broken down by (a) prison and (b) specialist area.
To ask the Scottish Government how many officer instructors have been employed by the Scottish Prison Service in each year since 2011, broken down by prison.
To ask the Scottish Government how much the Scottish Prison Service has spent on education (a) classes and (b) programmes in each year since 2011, broken down by prison.