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: S6W-20424
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what funding is in place to support social prescribing in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-20422
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to improve the knowledge and understanding amongst healthcare professionals of all symptoms of a potential stroke.
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Question reference: S6W-20423
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what policies it has to support social prescribing in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-18085
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by George Adam on 11 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on ministerial mobile phones in each of the past five years.
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Question reference: S6W-19121
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 27 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much money from the capital budget is being used for current spending in the 2023-24 financial year.
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Question reference: S6W-18875
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 23 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is considering the banning of homework in schools.
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Question reference: S6W-19133
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 23 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-18198 by Jenny Gilruth on 7 June 2023, whether it can confirm that only £50 million has been allocated to fund the teachers' pay settlement and that the remaining £155 million is still to be found within the education and skills budget for 2023-24.
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Question reference: S6W-19132
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 23 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-18198 by Jenny Gilruth on 7 June 2023, which states that it will provide a total of £205 million in 2023-24 to help meet the costs of the final March 2023 pay deal, in light of its officials stating in the Education, Children and Young People Committee meeting on 17 May 2023 that the total cost for the 2023-24 financial year was £188 million, whether it will confirm what the total cost of the teachers' pay settlement is in the 2023-24 financial year.
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Question reference: S6W-18672
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills has received the final report of the Independent Review of Qualifications and Assessment.
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Question reference: S6W-18857
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 16 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the employability and individual training account budgets will be confirmed and announced.
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