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-28687
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 6 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the rate of staff absence has been in (a) Social Security Scotland and (b) the Social Security Directorate during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-28688
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People on 1 April 2020 (Official Report, c. 53), whether work on the Social Security Programme has been paused.
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Question reference: S5W-28684
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what management information it has received from the DWP regarding increases in universal credit caseload in Scotland as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-28683
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether Scottish Choices for universal credit remains operational, and what management information regarding applications for the scheme it has received from the DWP since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-28685
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what change in (a) Best Start Grant applications, (b) Funeral Support Payment applications and (c) Carer's Allowance Supplement caseload Social Security Scotland (i) has experienced and (ii) expects to experience since the start of the of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-28682
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase the frequency of publication during the COVID-19 outbreak of statistical and management information regarding (a) applications, (b) decisions, (c) payments and (d) expenditure for (i) the Scottish Welfare Fund and (ii) locally administered council tax reduction.
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Question reference: S5W-28686
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People on 1 April 2020 (Official Report, c. 53), whether contingent workers on the Social Security Programme are being retained.
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Question reference: S5W-28044
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 March 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure the delivery of accessible community rehabilitation care.
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Question reference: S5W-28003
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 March 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 2 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether an equality impact assessment for the Scottish Child Payment will be published when the regulations are laid and, if so, on what date.
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Question reference: S5W-27820
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 09 March 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the British Sign Language Interpreting in Scotland: A Landscape Review 2019.