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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

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Question reference: S4W-04767

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 January 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has allocated to cover the cost of abolishing prescription charges in 2011-12 and how much it will allocate for (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14, (c) 2014-15 and (d) 2015-16.

Question reference: S4O-00570

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 January 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that a single police service will have effective governance and be locally accountable.

Question reference: S4O-00535

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the additional 1,000 police officers it has recruited have been assigned to frontline duties, in light of the 2% increase in violent crime in the last year.

Question reference: S4W-04180

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 8 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the supplementary to question S4O-00385 by Stewart Stevenson on 17 November 2011 (Official Report, c. 3606), whether it will provide a breakdown of the tonnage of carbon emissions expected to be reduced by each of the groups in receipt of funding from the climate challenge fund.

Question reference: S4W-04181

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 8 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-36407 by Stewart Stevenson on 30 September 2010, whether it considers that the statement in the answer that "Our £27 million Climate Challenge Fund has helped around 250 communities reduce their emissions saving around 700,000 tonnes of CO2 ... " was accurate.

Question reference: S4O-00451

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria it uses to determine the allocation of funds for the Sex Offender Treatment Programme in prisons.

Question reference: S4W-04077

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 25 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to questions S4W-03205 and S4W-03724 by Kenny MacAskill on 28 October and 9 November 2011 respectively, how the sex offender treatment programmes are evaluated.

Question reference: S4O-00385

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to tackle climate change.

Question reference: S4W-03723

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many sex offenders are in prison.

Question reference: S4W-03724

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-03205 by Kenny MacAskill on 28 October 2011, how many sex offenders in prison are returns having reoffended since attending the Sex Offender Treatment Programme.