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
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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Question reference: S5W-29482
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 9 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will meet its commitment to ensure that every secondary school has counselling services by September 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-29485
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 9 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of teachers have received mental health first aid training.
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Question reference: S5W-29481
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 9 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether the qualification pathways required to meet the national professional standard for school counsellors funded through its 2018-19 Programme for Government have been impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak, in particular for (a) the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and (b) Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA).
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Question reference: S5W-29486
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many school nurses are currently in place, and how many new school nursing posts have been filled in each of the last three academic years.
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Question reference: S5W-29504
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 5 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the evidence given by Richard Lochhead to the Education and Skills Committee on 20 May 2020 regarding the take-up of student hardship funding following the COVID-19 outbreak (Official Report, c. 31), in light of the minister’s comment that “I hope that, by the end of this week or early next week, we will have a report on the take-up so far of the hardship funds at institutional level, and on what the institutions are finding are the reasons why people are asking for hardship funding”, whether this report has been received and, if so, whether it will publish the findings.
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Question reference: S5W-29455
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 5 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the announcement by the First Minister on 21 May 2020 that £30 million in funding is to be used to provide laptops for disadvantaged children and young people, to enable them to study online, whether any of this funding will be used to provide broadband to families without a connection.
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Question reference: S5W-29414
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to permitting maritime activities such as recreational (a) boating, (b) fishing and (c) sailing to resume, given COVID-19 restrictions.
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Question reference: S5O-04390
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 June 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting Shetland’s rural economy.
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Question reference: S5O-04341
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the work of the COVID-19 Education Recovery Group.
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Question reference: S5W-28526
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many children have been identified as vulnerable in each local authority area, and what percentage on average have been attending childcare hubs each week.
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