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-00233
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 15 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the basic cost of having a child.
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Question reference: S5W-00229
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 15 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, in deciding to replace the Sure Start Maternity Grant, what assessment it made of the adequacy of the grant for assisting with the costs of a child.
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Question reference: S5W-00228
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 15 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government at what payment level it will set its replacement for the Sure Start Maternity Grant.
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Question reference: S5W-00231
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 15 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to change the eligibility criteria in its replacement for the Sure Start Maternity Grant in the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S5W-00248
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 14 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to introduce a licensing system for funeral directors.
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Question reference: S5W-00245
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 14 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government when it will hold the national funeral poverty conference that it announced on 3 February 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-00239
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 14 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to change the eligibility requirement for the funeral payment in the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S5W-00240
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 14 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the number of applicants expected for funeral payments in each of the next four years; what information it has on how many applications for funeral payments were made in Scotland in each of the last five years; what the estimated annual cost of these payments was, and what the average award was.
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Question reference: S5W-00236
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 14 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to change the funeral payment in the next 12 months.
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Question reference: S5W-00249
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 14 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to introduce parity in the burial and cremation costs charged by local authorities.