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.
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To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-22957 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 14 May 2019, what reasons were given for the absences, broken down by the percentage for each reason category.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people it estimates have applied for the Best Start Grant (a) baby and pregnancy, (b) early years and (c) school age payments compared with (i) those who are eligible and (ii) Scottish Fiscal Commission forecasts.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Child Payment will be uprated, and, if so, what measure of inflation it will use.
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the Scottish Child Payment will be made in respect of children in a household who have reached (a) the age of 16 and (b) the age of 16 and their 16th birthday was less than a year ago, and (i) are still in and (b) have left secondary education.
To ask the Scottish Government for what period an award of the Scottish Child Payment will be made.
To ask the Scottish Government how many additional staff Social Security Scotland expects to recruit in (a) total and (b) each band to support the delivery of the Scottish Child Payment, and what it estimates the overall cost of these additional staff will be.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a full breakdown of its costing of the Scottish Child Payment set out in its position paper, and for what reason those costs are not detailed under a specific option in its Analysis of Options for the Income Supplement paper.
To ask the Scottish Government whether an entitlement to the Scottish Child Payment will cease when a child reaches their 16th birthday.
To ask the Scottish Government how it will continuously verify entitlement to the Scottish Child Payment on an ongoing basis, and how frequently it will do so.
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) nominal and (b) real value of the Scottish Child Payment will be at 2019-20 prices when it is delivered (i) in 2021 and (ii) fully in 2022.