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.
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To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that it has frozen the funding for the national mission to reduce drug-related deaths and harms at £60 million in its draft Budget 2025-26, and that this represents a real-terms reduction, which rehabilitation services in the Glasgow region will be impacted by this.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has reportedly decided to freeze the funding for the national mission to reduce drug-related deaths and harms at £60 million in its draft Budget 2025-26.
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of spending allocated to the national mission to reduce drug-related deaths and harms was allocated to rehabilitation services between 2022 and 2024.
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to educate young people on alcohol marketing in schools.
To ask the Scottish Government how many instances there have been of the use of drones to deliver drugs to prisons since 2022 to date.
To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken to prevent drug misuse deaths that have been classified as intentional self-poisonings, as set out in statistics published in 2023 by the National Records of Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government which specific local services in Glasgow that make decisions on commissioning and planning services for people impacted by drugs it funds.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has regarding combining the methadone substitution programme with residential rehabilitation, in light of reports that this method has a higher success rate of 29%.
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to address the reported 19% rise in contacts relating to domestic abuse involving children in the first six months of 2024-25, according to the NSPCC.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to specifically address the misuse of opiates/opioids.