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Parliamentary Questions

MSP’s ask questions in the Scottish Parliament to seek information or explanation from Ministers (and the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body). This is a means by which MSP’s can raise issues of concern.

Here are some of the questions Ken has asked recently:

Libraries 

S3W-33399 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Tuesday, April 27, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any plans to merge school libraries with public libraries in the Edinburgh area.

Due for answer Wednesday, May 12, 2010

S3W-33398 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Tuesday, April 27, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any plans to merge school libraries with public libraries.

Due for answer Wednesday, May 12, 2010

S3W-33397 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Tuesday, April 27, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive what the opening hours are in (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special school libraries, broken down by local authority area, and what they were (i) two and (ii) four years ago.

Due for answer Wednesday, May 12, 2010

S3W-33396 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Tuesday, April 27, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive how many library staff were employed by (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special schools broken down by local authority area (i) in the last year, (ii) two years ago and (iii) four years ago.

Due for answer Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Education

S3W-33261 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Monday, April 19, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive in how many schools history is taught by someone without a history qualification in (a) S1 and (b) S2 and how this compares with (i) two, (ii) four and (iii) eight years ago.

Due for answer Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Justice

S3W-33041 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Thursday, April 01, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive whether there has been a policy decision to collect from crime scenes DNA instead of fingerprint evidence.

Answered by Kenny MacAskill (Monday, April 26, 2010): The collection of evidence at crime scenes is an operational matter for the Scottish Police Services Authority and police chief constables. Both fingerprints and DNA samples are invaluable in providing evidence linking an individual to a crime scene. Expert scene examination officers and investigating police officers take decisions on the most appropriate method of collecting evidence based on the circumstances of the individual crime scene. If both fingerprint and DNA evidence are present at a scene then both would generally be collected.

S3W-33040 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Thursday, April 01, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive in relation to how many cases involving the Scottish Police Services Authority and its predecessor bodies was DNA but not fingerprint evidence collected in each of the last five years, broken down by regional bureau.

Answered by Kenny MacAskill (Monday, April 26, 2010): I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33036 on 26 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

S3W-33039 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Thursday, April 01, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive in relation to how many cases involving the Scottish Police Services Authority and its predecessor bodies was the crime scene examined for fingerprint evidence in each of the last five years, broken down by regional bureau.

Answered by Kenny MacAskill (Monday, April 26, 2010): I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33036 on 26 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

S3W-33038 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Thursday, April 01, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive in relation to how many cases involving the Scottish Police Services Authority and its predecessor bodies was the crime scene examined for DNA evidence in each of the last five years, broken down by regional bureau.

Answered by Kenny MacAskill (Monday, April 26, 2010): I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33036 on 26 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

S3W-33037 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Thursday, April 01, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive in what proportion of crime scenes was an examination carried out by the Scottish Police Services Authority and its predecessor bodies in each of the last five years, broken down by regional bureau.

Answered by Kenny MacAskill (Monday, April 26, 2010): I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33036 on 26 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

S3W-33036 - Ken Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab) (Date Lodged Thursday, April 01, 2010): To ask the Scottish Executive how many crime scene examinations were carried out by the Scottish Police Services Authority and its predecessor bodies in each of the last five years, broken down by regional bureau.

Answered by Kenny MacAskill (Monday, April 26, 2010): Crime scene examinations are an operational matter for the Scottish Police Services Authority and police chief constables. Information on the number of crime scenes attended and the evidence collected is not held centrally.

You can keep up to date with what is going on in the parliament at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/index.htm