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.
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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To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on the ability of the education agencies to deliver the curriculum for excellence.
To ask the Scottish Government how many GPs are registered but not practising.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Glasgow Regional Colleges Board has not yet assumed responsibility for the distribution of funds for the college sector in Glasgow, and when it expects it to do so.
To ask the Scottish Government how much the Lanarkshire Regional Colleges Board has cost to run and operate in each financial year since it was established, and whether these costs are top-sliced from the funding allocation to the two Lanarkshire colleges.
To ask the Scottish Government how much the Glasgow Regional Colleges Board has cost to run and operate in each financial year since it was established, and whether these costs are top-sliced from the funding allocation to the three Glasgow colleges.
To ask the Scottish Government how much in (a) total and (b) the current financial year, college (i) chairs and (ii) board members of individual (A) colleges and (B) regional boards are paid, and how this compares with the last financial year prior to regionalisation and merger reforms in the college sector.
To ask the Scottish Government how many school janitor posts in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools have been lost in the last five academic years.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to widen access to postgraduate study for people from deprived backgrounds.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has not responded in full to the findings in the paper, Taught Postgraduate Review: Working Group Final Report, which was published on 21 December 2015, and by what date it will issue its response.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with local authorities regarding equalities in their employment practices.