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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-33110

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 14 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many cases were handled in each of the last five years by justices of the peace, broken down by case type.

Question reference: S6W-33116

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 14 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the cost has been of administering the justice of the peace system in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S6W-33098

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 14 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what its policy is on the purchase or use of personalised number plates for its official vehicles.

Question reference: S6W-33111

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 14 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the average caseload is for a justice of the peace.

Question reference: S6W-33093

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 14 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many personalised or special vehicle number plates it owns, and what the cost of any such plates has been over the last five years.

Question reference: S6W-33115

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 14 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of cases handled by justices of the peace in each of the last five years resulted in convictions.

Question reference: S6W-32623

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 December 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 13 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how much was spent on staff (a) salaries and (b) travel expenses at each of its international offices in the last year.

The following table presents totals for (a) salaries, including overseas allowances, and (b) travel expenses for 2023-24.

International Office	(a) Salary Costs	(b) Travel Costs
China	£206,338	£10,500
United States	£281,144	£29,000
Canada	£195,802	£47,000
France	£239,456	£10,700
Nordics	£277,666	£8,900
Scotland House Brussels	£1,191,266	£30,300
Ireland	£228,481	£5,000
Germany	£260,067	£11,700
Scotland House London	£665,894	£13,200

The international network offices outside the UK comprise country-based staff (CBS) in addition to UK-Based diplomatic staff. These figures contains additional non-salary costs for CBS, who are employed by FCDO, which are not disaggregated when recharged to the Scottish Government.

Question reference: S6W-32691

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 December 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 13 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the average estimated cost to Police Scotland is of seizing and processing an illegal e-bike.

Question reference: S6W-32692

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 December 2024
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what economic losses or costs to public services have been identified that are attributable to accidents involving illegal e-bikes.

Data on collisions which cause injury and take place on the road network, including adjacent pavements and cycle lanes, is collected by Police Scotland as part of the GB-wide dataset known as STATS19.

Within STATS19, vehicles involved in injury road collisions can be recorded as ‘bicycle’ or ‘electric motorcycle’. However, there is currently no systematic way of determining which of these vehicles would be described as illegal e-bikes.

The UK Government’s Department for Transport routinely produces estimates of the values assigned to the cost of road casualties and collisions in Great Britain for use in cost-benefit analysis of the prevention of road casualties and collisions in road schemes. However, as it is not possible to systematically identify collisions involving illegal e-bikes, it is not possible to use these figures to identify the costs of collisions involving illegal e-bikes.

Question reference: S6W-32696

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 December 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 13 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many complaints about illegal e-bikes Police Scotland has received from residents in Aberdeen in each of the last three years.