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 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, in light of the comments in its Scottish Child Payment position paper, that “having to build interfaces with the suite of legacy benefits […] was deemed to be too technically complex, time-consuming and not cost-effective”, whether it will provide more details of the (a) technical, (b) time and (c) cost requirements that underpinned this determination, and who made the determination.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the comment in its Scottish Child Payment position paper, that “having to build interfaces with the suite of legacy benefits in mitigation of this risk was deemed to be too technically complex, time-consuming and not cost-effective, given that UC [Universal Credit] is designed to replace those systems”, whether it considered an automated delivery model for people in receipt of universal credit.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the provision of social security advocacy services will extend to (a) parents or carers applying for disability assistance for children and young people in their care and (b) adults applying for disability assistance for looked after children for whom they are responsible.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it expects to gather from the question in the 2021 Census on deafness, and whether it considers that this will provide accurate data on the demography of people and their levels of hearing loss.
To ask the Scottish Government what data it gathers on the number of people who are deaf, deafblind, deafened and hard of hearing, and what methods it uses to gather accurate data.
To ask the Scottish Government what methods it uses to gather accurate data on the ages of people in Scotland who have a hearing loss and the levels of hearing loss that they have.
To ask the Scottish Government what provision it has in place to reduce the barriers faced on a daily basis by people who are deaf, deafened, deafblind or hard of hearing.
To ask the Scottish Government what methods it uses to gather accurate data on where people who have hearing loss live, and the levels of hearing loss that they have.