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 what plans it has to start publishing monthly Affordable Housing Supply Programme (a) finance, (b) approval, (c) starts and (d) completions statistics.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish its assumptions regarding the investment needed to deliver the 110,0000 affordable housing supply target.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the (a) Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and (b) Scottish Court and Tribunals Service regarding the GEOAmey Court Custody and Prisoner Escort Services contract.
To ask the Scottish Government how the £66.9 million investment in offshore wind, announced in its Budget 2024-25, will be delivered; what the investment priorities will be, and what the (a) timeline and (b) process will be for releasing the funds.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government what impact it anticipates its proposed £205.1 million reduction to its Housing & Building Standards budget, as set out in the 2024-25 Scottish Budget, will have on the future of its (a) Rural and (b) Islands Housing Fund.
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has done to assess the effectiveness of the GEOAmey Court Custody and Prisoner Escort Services contract.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the performance of GEOAmey in fulfilling its Court Custody and Prisoner Escort Services contract; whether it has any concerns regarding this, and, if so, whether it will outline these.
To ask the Scottish Government how many instances there have been where a person under the age of 18 was held on remand in a prison facility for adults in (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22, (c) 2022-23 and (d) 2023 to date.
To ask the Scottish Government how many hours of outdoor exercise prisoners had, on average, per day, in each of the last 12 months.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of Transport Scotland’s reported decision not to fund Smarter Choices, Smarter Places from April 2024, whether any replacement funding stream will continue to be used for local transport.