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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: S6W-08815

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 10 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many domestic home fire safety visits have taken place in each of the last 10 years and, if there has been a decline, (a) for what reason the number has reduced and (b) what impact this has had on the number of households at risk of fire.

Question reference: S6W-08814

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 10 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how the proposed reduction in the number of fire investigators in the east and north of the country will impact on the quality of service provided.

Question reference: S6W-08816

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 30 May 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 10 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many non-domestic fire safety visits have taken place in each of the last 10 years and, if there has been a decline, (a) for what reason the number has reduced and (b) what impact this has had on the number of business premises at risk of fire.

Question reference: S6F-01196

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 June 2022

To ask the First Minister what steps the Scottish Government will take to ensure that victims of rape and domestic abuse are not retraumatised as a result of plans to allow them to formally meet those who harmed them.

Question reference: S6F-01144

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 May 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 May 2022

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to comments by Citizens Advice Scotland that one in five people are running out of money before payday.

Question reference: S6O-00996

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 April 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how its policies across government will support young people living in Glasgow to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Question reference: S6W-07677

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 April 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many men were treated through the Caledonia System in 2021, and how many have been treated since it began.

In the period from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021, 379 men were required to attend the Caledonian System as part of a Community Payback Order (CPO). In total, 1100 men were provided with the opportunity to access the programme in this period.

Prior to 2016 uptake of the Men's Programme is difficult to quantify precisely, because of limitations in the monitoring data. However, from the data available, the Caledonian System Evaluation in 2016 found that at least 941 men had started the Men’s Programme and 598 women had taken up the offer of support from the Women’s Service since September 2010.

Since the introduction of a new dataset from 1 May 2018, 1386 men have been required to attend the Caledonian System as part of a CPO. During this same period, 1934 women were also contacted, and offered the opportunity to contribute to the assessment process and have been offered safety planning.

Question reference: S6W-07676

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 April 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recently announced increase in resources, approximately how many men it forecasts will be treated through the Caledonia System in 2022.

During 2022, we will take forward necessary preparatory work to support the national rollout of the Caledonian System with the aim of making it available to all 32 Scottish local authorities by the end of the parliamentary term.

The size of a local authority, and the domestic abuse offending rates within, play a significant role in any forecasting. The Caledonian System is currently available in 19 local authorities and by expanding its availability across Scotland we will significantly increase the number of men accessing the programme.

Question reference: S6W-07594

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 25 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 14 April 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the next steps are in taking forward the recommendations of the report, Misogyny - A Human Rights Issue.

On the day the report was published on 8 March, the First Minister welcomed the recommendations and thanked Baroness Helena Kennedy and the working group for their efforts over the past year. The First Minister made clear the issues raised in the report are pivotal in challenging society’s tolerance of misogyny and sending a clear message that male attitudes that emanate from prejudice and misogyny have no place in a modern, equal Scotland.

The Scottish Government is considering the detailed recommendations with a view to ensuring that any provisions proposed for legislation in due course are workable and can meet the expectations of, and intentions behind, the working group’s report.

We will provide our initial response to the report in the coming weeks and will outline the next steps then.

Question reference: S6W-07438

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 31 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in commissioning and completing independent research on the legal aid sector and levels of remuneration, as recommended in Legal Aid Payment Review Panel - Report to the Minister for Community Safety, published in July 2021.

The work on the payment panel research was paused due to other Covid-related work. The development of a specification for the gathering of vital data and evidence has resumed and we would hope to share this specification with the Law Society of Scotland and the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association after summer. The co-operation of the profession in building this evidence base will be crucial to this work which will underpin an evidence-based approach to setting payments for legal aid services in the future. The Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid was able to gather vital data with the support of the Law Society of England and Wales which helped inform the recommendations made. We would hope to gather similar data on the position of Scottish solicitors who deliver legal aid as part of the payment panel research.