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-09102
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 11 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government to ask how many 16- to 24-year-olds who had been unemployed for six months or more have moved into work since September 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-09099
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when it will cease its engagement with Atos Healthcare.
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Question reference: S5W-09100
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by Jeane Freeman on 27 April 2017 (Official Report, c. 44), which of the 11 devolved benefits will not be delivered by the new social security agency.
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Question reference: S5W-09094
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 10 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when the Scottish Transplant and Donation Group last met.
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Question reference: S5W-09130
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the new social security agency offering a public services card similar to that used in Ireland for the delivery of services.
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Question reference: S5W-09093
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 10 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when the Scottish Transplant and Donation Group last discussed opt-out.
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Question reference: S5W-09098
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, following the establishment of a social security agency, whether decisions made by social security agency staff will be taken on behalf of the Scottish ministers.
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Question reference: S5W-09096
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether the commitment made by Jeane Freeman on 27 April 2017, that there will be "no contracting with the private sector" in the deniability assessment model, will be provided for in its social security bill.
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Question reference: S5W-09097
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what future engagements (a) ministers and (b) officials have with Atos Healthcare.
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Question reference: S5W-08890
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Department for Work and Pensions regarding using powers devolved under the Scotland Act 2016 to vary the (a) allowances, (b) premiums, (c) components and (d) elements within reserved benefits, and what the outcome was.