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-00246
- 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 monitoring arrangements are in place to track funeral poverty.
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Question reference: S5W-00241
- 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 basic cost of a funeral.
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Question reference: S5W-00247
- 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 action it will take to ensure that social security funeral payments meet the actual cost of a funeral.
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Question reference: S5W-00244
- 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 how much the funeral payment would be if it had been uprated in line with the (a) retail and (b) consumer price index since 2003.
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Question reference: S5W-00242
- 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 average cost of a funeral.
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Question reference: S5W-00237
- 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 the funeral payment in Scotland will be at the same level as that provided by the UK Government.
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Question reference: S5W-00238
- 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 assessment it has made of the adequacy of the funeral payment provision for funeral expenses.
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Question reference: S5W-00234
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on what the level of the Sure Start Maternity Grant would be had it been uprated in line with the (a) retail and (b) consumer price index since 2002.
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Question reference: S4O-05642
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how the Forth Road Bridge closure has affected the condition of roads on diversionary routes.
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Question reference: S4O-05563
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 February 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 11 February 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the judgement by Sheriff V Smith against North Lanarkshire Council in relation to the siting of snack vans near schools.
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