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.
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To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the management of the City of Glasgow College regarding the long-term future of the Trade Union Education Centre.
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Education (Scotland) Bill, what its position is on how the new Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework will sit with the work of the proposed inspectorate.
To ask the Scottish Government which members of the Cabinet have visited a college in the last year.
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Education (Scotland) Bill and proposed inspectorate, what its position is on whether colleges are a "relevant educational establishment" or an "excepted establishment".
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the evidence received by the Economy and Fair Work Committee, as part of its inquiry on the disability employment gap, which stated that there are few conversations with disabled young people about getting a job once they leave school because of a perception that employment will not be for them.
To ask the Scottish Government what processes for monitoring and measuring outcomes local authorities were required to implement to gather evidence on the effectiveness of the delivery of its school meal debt fund.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recommendation in the Economy and Fair Work Committee report, Closing the Disability Employment Gap in Scotland, regarding training for teaching staff and careers advisors on the specific needs of disabled and neurodiverse young people.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) children and (b) families had their school meal debt written off as a result of its school meal debt fund, broken down by local authority area.
To ask the Scottish Government what processes for monitoring and measuring outcomes it has implemented to gather evidence on the effectiveness of the delivery of its school meal debt fund.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on the "waking watch" system in apartment blocks in Glasgow since it was introduced in February 2023.