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: S5W-00869
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 1 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide data showing the net income position of different families as recommended by the Commission for Childcare Reform in its June 2015 report, Meeting Scotland's Childcare Challenge.
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Question reference: S5W-00868
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 30 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to place a duty on strategic partners to act as planning authorities for childcare availability, as recommended by the Commission for Childcare Reform in its June 2015 report, Meeting Scotland's Childcare Challenge.
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Question reference: S5W-00775
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has access to Scottish and sub-Scotland level data on current benefit take-up.
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Question reference: S5W-00776
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to increase benefit take-up and how it will measure success.
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Question reference: S5W-00824
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 28 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on its commitment in the Mental Health Strategy for Scotland: 2012-2015 to (a) make basic infant mental health training more widely available to professionals in the children's services workforce and (b) improve child psychotherapy by investing in a new cohort of trainees.
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Question reference: S5W-00823
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 28 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to reduce the number of children and young people requiring mental health inpatient treatment being treated in non-specialist wards.
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Question reference: S5W-00825
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 28 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what is it doing to reduce any disparities between NHS boards in waiting times for child and adolescent mental health services.
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Question reference: S5W-00721
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment by Michael Matheson on 10 June 2016 in the news release, Tackling hate crime, that "I have asked Scottish football to take further steps to address this long-standing issue and I expect to see progress on this imminently”, whether it will provide a breakdown of the steps that it has asked the football authorities to take.
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Question reference: S5W-00630
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 21 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made and whether it has established timescales in its consideration of the availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis, as pledged in the 2016 SNP manifesto.
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Question reference: S5W-00139
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 16 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the introduction of transitional state pension arrangements for women in Scotland who were born in the 1950s.
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