Questions and answers
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-43991
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what the revenue and capital budgets allocated to Police Scotland have been in each year since the creation of Police Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-43998
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government when it will complete the roll-out of new equipment to provide greater protection to police officers.
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Question reference: S6W-43990
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what action it and Police Scotland are taking to increase the funding available to improve the psychological wellbeing of police officers.
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Question reference: S6W-43995
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how many mental health-related calls Police Scotland officers have attended in each year since the creation of Police Scotland.
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Question reference: S6O-05484
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 February 2026
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what financial or practical support is being made available to poultry producers affected by the latest avian influenza outbreak.
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Question reference: S6W-43194
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 January 2026
- Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 3 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how many men completed the Caledonian System programme in 2024-25.
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Question reference: S6W-42904
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 January 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 22 January 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what activities have been (a) stopped permanently, (b) suspended and (c) reduced as part of the Focused Day initiative by the Scottish Prison Service.
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Question reference: S6W-42905
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 January 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 22 January 2026
To ask the Scottish Government which prisons are currently operating a restricted regime; when these regimes at each prison are planned to come to an end, and what activities have been (a) stopped permanently, (b) suspended and (c) reduced in each prison as a consequence of the restrictions.
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Question reference: S6W-42487
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 December 2025
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 January 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills on 3 December 2025 that “the national review [of group-based sexual harm] will provide a more accurate and focused picture of the scale of and response” to the issue, whether it will confirm who the members of the review will be; on what basis they will be selected, and when they will be in place.
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Question reference: S6W-42488
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 December 2025
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 January 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the article in The Herald on 4 December 2025, So who is leading Scotland’s grooming-gang review?, whether it will confirm who will lead the review into grooming gangs.
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