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-29801
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government which schools in The Highland Council area have received Pupil Equity Funding for 2019-20, broken down by the amount allocated to each.
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Question reference: S5W-29795
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many pupils with additional support needs (ASN) pupils have not had daily access to an ASN teacher during the COVID-19 lockdown, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S5W-29792
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 19 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how it monitors how Pupil Equity Funding is spent by each school.
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Question reference: S5W-29793
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 19 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many additional support needs' (a) teachers and (b) pupils there are, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S5W-29796
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 19 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many educational key worker hubs have not had a daily additional support needs' teacher present during the COVID-19 lockdown, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S5O-04397
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 June 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when physical work will start with the delivery of Lot 1 of the R100 high-speed broadband programme.
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Question reference: S5O-04247
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2020
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the NFU Scotland document, Stability – The Platform for Change, what pilot schemes for agricultural support it will introduce for the 2021 claim year.
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Question reference: S5O-04069
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 January 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met The Highland Council and NHS Highland to discuss social isolation and loneliness.
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Question reference: S5W-26715
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 January 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-26368 by Fergus Ewing on 21 November 2019, what action it is taking to ensure that Highlands and Islands Enterprise carries out the due diligence promptly; by what date it expects the funicular to be fully repaired, and whether it believes that it will be open to the public by the end of 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-26716
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 20 December 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the terms were for NHS Highland being placed at level 4 of the NHS Board Performance Escalation Framework, and what key performance indicators it will use to determine whether this status should be retained or changed.