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
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Question reference: S5W-20766
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20405 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 20 December 2018, what the manual checks in place for quality assurance require in terms of staff time per claim; what proportion of the processes are (a) automated and (b) manual, and what the staff time is per claim for manual processes.
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Question reference: S5W-20765
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government further to the answer to question S5W-20403 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 20 December 2018, for what reason promotion of the Best Start Grant Pregnancy and Baby Payment was not fully embedded in NHS board maternity and health visiting pathways prior to the launch of the grant; whether it will commission work to report on the position of boards in relation to the approach to promotion in their individual areas, and what the earliest opportunity is that it can place an explicit requirement for them to provide applications to new mothers in hospital.
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Question reference: S5W-20764
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20403 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 20 December 2018, whether this has been progressed with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport; whether it considers that a cross-portfolio approach has satisfactorily been taken, and whether section 3 of the Social Security Act has been adequately satisfied by not placing an explicit requirement for NHS boards to provide applications to new mothers in hospital.
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Question reference: S5W-20704
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what information the DWP has requested regarding the role of the working groups developing the Chief Medical Officer's guidance for registered medical practitioners to make clinical judgements on terminal illness in relation to disability assistance, and what information it has provided to the DWP regarding this.
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Question reference: S5W-20706
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it anticipates there will be any additional cost for developing the Chief Medical Officer's guidance for registered medical practitioners to make clinical judgements on terminal illness in relation to disability assistance, beyond those referenced in the former Minister for Social Security's letter of 18 April 2018 to the former Convener of the Social Security Committee, which referred to a cost of £300 million for the associated amendment to the then Social Security (Scotland) Bill.
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Question reference: S5W-20705
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the DWP regarding the role of the working groups developing the Chief Medical Officer's guidance for registered medical practitioners to make clinical judgements on terminal illness in relation to disability assistance.
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Question reference: S5W-20703
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated saving or cost is of its proposed social security policy on terminal illness, which requires registered medical practitioners to determine eligibility based on their clinical judgement, compared with the DWP policy on terminal illness, which is based on rules in which death "can reasonably be expected" within the next six months.
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Question reference: S5W-20616
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether the working assumption of its Social Security Directorate is for disability benefit rules and structures to remain broadly the same as those stipulated under disability living allowance, attendance allowance and personal independence payment.
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Question reference: S5W-20558
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what alternatives to accessing DWP data it has considered in order to mitigate the two-child benefit cap.
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Question reference: S5W-20556
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to comments made by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Economy and Fair Work in The Times on 8 December 2018, when it requested access to DWP data for the purposes of mitigating the two-child benefit cap.
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