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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)
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Question reference: S4O-05289

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 January 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to improve prisoners' access to education.

Question reference: S4O-04881

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 December 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support looked-after children.

Question reference: S4O-04854

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage partnership working to secure growth and investment for cities.

Question reference: S4O-04810

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 18 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met representatives of the Scottish Football Association and what was discussed.

Question reference: S4O-04785

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 November 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what winter preparedness programmes it has put in place to protect vulnerable people.

Question reference: S4F-03008

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 October 2015

To ask the First Minister whether she will provide an update on the Scottish Government’s response to the refugee crisis.

Question reference: S4O-04627

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 23 September 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the SFA regarding football clubs, including Queen’s Park Football Club, that are helping to support health, wellbeing and addiction advice services in communities.

We have had no contact with the SFA on this specific issue but we do have ongoing engagement with the Scottish Professional Football League Trust on their support of clubs with health and wellbeing initiatives for their local communities. This is exemplified by the Football Fans in Training Project which has won international recognition for its work with communities to tackle obesity. The Football Fans in Training is supported by £275k from the Scottish Government in 2015-16.

Question reference: S4O-04588

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 September 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on discussions it has had regarding the reported decline in the bee population.

Question reference: S4O-04524

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 September 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its strategy for supporting access to work for disabled people.

Question reference: S4W-26599

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 July 2015
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 27 July 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the implementation of integrated travel ticketing.

Transport Scotland’s smart and integrated ticketing strategy was launched in 2012 and its long term vision statement is ‘That all journeys on Scotland’s bus, rail, ferry, subway and tram networks can be accessed using some form of smart ticketing or payment.’

One project, the Scottish fulfilment service will complement the vision for smart ticketing by establishing a new entity providing transport information, ticketing and account based services to passengers, and management information and resettlement services to operators. This project also contributes positively to all five of the Scottish Government objectives - wealthier and fairer, smarter, healthier, safer and stronger and greener.

We have also set out smart ticketing targets in the new ScotRail franchise which commenced on 1 April 2015. These include clear contractual targets for delivery of smart ticketing on Scotland's rail network. Abellio ScotRail has committed to achieving 60% uptake for the majority of ticket types and a 65% uptake for all ticket types, by 2019 and 2021 respectively.

Smart ticketing will also feature in the new Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services contract tenders (October 2016) and the Northern Isles Ferry Services contract tenders (April 2018) and will be passenger focussed.

There is also strong engagement with the bus industry and Transport Scotland is both supporting large operators like First and Stagecoach in delivering their commercial objectives and directly assisting smaller bus operators in developing and delivering smart and integrated ticketing.

Finally, we are ensuring that the infrastructure platform necessary to deliver smart ticketing is fit for purpose, and are investing wherever necessary in this aspect of delivery, particularly on buses where 40% of journeys are already smart by virtue of the government's concessionary travel scheme.

All of the above aims to further enhance the quality of service being delivered to passengers throughout Scotland, and we expect to see progressively more smart ticketing being delivered in the months ahead.