Portfolio Questions

Justice and the Law Officers

Gordon MacDonald S5O-04270
1. To ask the Scottish Government what steps prisons are taking to reduce the risk of the coronavirus, COVID-19, spreading among prisoners and staff.

Jamie Greene S5O-04271
2. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the firefighter pay negotiations.

Johann Lamont S5O-04272
3. To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to support the #DontTolerateHate campaign.

Tom Mason
4. [Withdrawn]

Alex Cole-Hamilton S5O-04274
5. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the justice secretary has had with ministerial colleagues regarding how many of the 800 additional mental health workers committed to in its Mental Health Strategy will be deployed within police and prison services in Edinburgh.

Miles Briggs S5O-04275
6. To ask the Scottish Government what progress the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service is making with efforts to reduce waiting times for toxicology results.

Anas Sarwar S5O-04276
7. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings of the recent inquiry by the Cross Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia, which reported that only one in five victims of anti-Muslim hate crime report it to the police.

Mark Ruskell
8. [Withdrawn]


Constitution, Europe and External Affairs

Graham Simpson S5O-04278
1. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to promote fair trade.

Gil Paterson
2. [Withdrawn]

Claudia Beamish S5O-04280
3. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the inter-ministerial group on policy coherence for sustainable development that it announced at Scotland’s International Development Alliance AGM in September 2019.

Peter Chapman
4. [Withdrawn]

Alexander Stewart S5O-04282
5. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking in response to the independent review of the Humanitarian Emergency Fund.

Willie Coffey S5O-04283
6. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on future arrangements for the Erasmus+ programme for Scottish and European students.

John Mason S5O-04284
7. To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the comments in its China engagement strategy regarding respect for human rights, what its position is on the recent full judgement of the China Tribunal on forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience.

Gail Ross
8. [Withdrawn]