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
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Question reference: S6W-15300
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many recipients of a STEM teacher education bursary were offered a permanent teaching post upon completion of the one-year Teacher Induction Scheme, in each academic year since 2018-19.
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Question reference: S6W-15297
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many STEM teacher education bursaries were awarded in each academic year since 2018-19, broken down by teaching subject area.
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Question reference: S6W-15294
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many current vacancies there are for part-time, permanent teaching positions in (a) physics, (b) chemistry, (c) mathematics, (d) computing science, (e) technical education and (f) home economics, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S6W-15302
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many current vacancies there are for full-time, permanent teaching positions in (a) physics, (b) chemistry, (c) mathematics, (d) computing science, (e) technical education and (f) home economics, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S6W-15298
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) students at Scotland’s universities in (a) physics, (b) chemistry, (c) mathematics, (d) computing science, (e) technical education, (f) home economics were STEM teacher education bursary recipients, in each academic year since 2018-19.
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Question reference: S6W-15295
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent to date on the STEM teacher education bursary scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-15301
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many recipients of a STEM teacher education bursary in each academic year since 2018-19 were still employed as a teacher in a local authority school in February 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-15187
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01165 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 July 2021, whether it will provide the complete figures for (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23.
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Question reference: S6W-15107
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 2 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how the personal data of people in Scotland involved in the Homes for Ukraine scheme was accessed and used to send fraudulent letters.
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Question reference: S6W-15106
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 2 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how and (b) when it became aware that the personal data of people in Scotland involved in the Homes for Ukraine scheme had been used to send fraudulent letters.
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