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: S5F-03748
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 November 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 November 2019
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5F-03709
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 November 2019
Question to be taken in the Chamber.
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Question reference: S5F-03685
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 November 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 November 2019
Question to be taken in the Chamber.
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Question reference: S5W-25335
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the issues raised in the article in The Herald on 11 September 2019, "Doctor: Pension tax bill will force me to cut hours".
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Question reference: S5F-03597
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 September 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 October 2019
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5W-25334
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will issue guidance to NHS employers setting out how they can provide flexibility in 2019-20 for senior clinical staff to do extra work without breaching limits for pensions tax relief, and whether it will allow affected staff to opt-out of the NHS pensions scheme mid-year with discretionary flexibility to maintain the value of clinicians’ total reward packages.
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Question reference: S5W-24898
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government which local authority was unable to provide data for the reporting period detailed in the Early Learning and Childcare Expansion Delivery Progress Report dated June 2019; what the reason for this was, and whether it will provide data for inclusion in the next progress report.
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Question reference: S5W-24891
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23961 by Maree Todd on 18 July 2019, whether it expects the near doubling of uptake of the two-year-old offer to be achieved by the end of the funding agreement with local government in 2021-22, or whether an alternative deadline has been set.
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Question reference: S5W-24889
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23958 by Maree Todd on 18 July 2019, how good practice and innovation will be shared across Scotland from the nine multi-agency local authority teams working with the Children and Young People Improvement Collaborative to increase uptake of the two-year-old funded early learning and childcare offer.
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Question reference: S5W-24894
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Early Learning and Childcare Expansion Delivery Progress Report dated June 2019, what steps it is taking to increase the number of two-year-olds receiving more than 600 hours of funded ELC in order to meet the forecast figures.
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