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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 20 August 2025
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Question reference: S5W-26136

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 01 November 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 13 November 2019

To ask the Scottish Government by what date its fair delivery charges map for parcels will be launched.

Question reference: S5W-26137

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 01 November 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 13 November 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to support its Statement of Principles for Parcel Deliveries by retailers.

Question reference: S5W-25792

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 October 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 13 November 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that the take-up rate has been slow, how it will encourage and support people in installing low-carbon heating systems to help meet its target of 11% of non-electrical heat demand coming from renewable sources by 2020.

Question reference: S5W-25996

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 13 November 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the extra £3 million of funding for the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme will be allocated in Orkney.

Question reference: S5W-26049

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how frequently it believes that inmates of Scottish prisons spend “22 to 23 hours per day in their cells”, as reported by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).

Question reference: S5W-26048

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it maintains data showing the number of hours that inmates spend in their cells, and whether it will publish any data collected.

Question reference: S5W-26059

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 November 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the findings and recommendations made by NHS Chief Executives in relation to female pathways across the forensic mental health estate.

Question reference: S5W-26054

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the finding by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) that there has been a considerable deterioration in the number of psychiatric sessions available to people in Scottish prisons since 2012, how many sessions there have been in each year since 2012-13.

Question reference: S5W-26050

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the finding by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture that in Scotland's prisons “in practice, recreation time was the exception rather than the norm. Overall, remand prisoners were getting, at best, two hours unlocked from their cells per day.”

Question reference: S5W-26051

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 November 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20884 by Humza Yousaf on 30 January 2019, what progress it has made toward maintaining and publishing data on the hours spent by remand prisoners engaged in purposeful activity.