Wednesday, 13 March 2019
The first item of business is portfolio question time. As usual, to get in as many members as possible, I request nice short questions and nice succinct answers. I live in hope.
1. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider traffic management options for the A90/A944 junction. (S5O-02973)
3. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the Levenmouth sustainable transport study. (S5O-02975)
4. To ask the Scottish Government when it will receive the report of the one-year review of the operation of the Queensferry crossing. (S5O-02976)
5. To ask the Scottish Government what progress—I nearly read out someone else’s question, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to alleviate...
6. To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on meeting the targets set out in the Tayside and central Scotland transport partnership’s “Regional Transport Strategy...
7. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that there are no barriers to businesses accessing broadband. (S5O-02979)
8. To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made following the one year after Scottish trunk road infrastructure project evaluation of the M8, M73 and M74 improvements project....
1. To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to prevent knife crime. (S5O-02981)
2. To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it provides to organisations that aim to reduce and prevent sectarianism in society. (S5O-02982)
4. To ask the Scottish Government how many of the prison population are veterans. (S5O-02984)
5. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the Cabinet Secretary for Justice has had with ministerial colleagues regarding the impact of reductions to Scottish Legal Aid Board funding on...
6. To ask the Scottish Government how it supports people in island and remote areas in accessing legal assistance. (S5O-02986)
7. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the progress being made by the health and social care in prisons programme board. (S5O-02987)
8. To ask the Scottish Government whether Police Scotland and the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service record incidents according to the alleged perpetrator’s birth sex, or by...
The next item of business is a debate on motion S5M-16267, in the name of Maree Todd, on the year of young people 2018—a celebration, a chance and a change.
The next item of business is consideration of business motion S5M-16290, in the name of Graeme Dey, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, setting out a business programme. Motion moved, That the...
The next item of business is consideration of Parliamentary Bureau motion S5M-16292, in the name of Graeme Dey, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, on approval of a Scottish statutory...
The first question is, that amendment S5M-16267.1, in the name of Alex Cole-Hamilton, which seeks to amend motion S5M-16267, in the name of Maree Todd, on the year of young people 2018: a...
The final item of business is a members’ business debate on motion S5M-15678, in the name of Liz Smith, on the centenary of the death of Sir Hugh Munro. The debate will be concluded without...
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