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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with local authorities regarding the impact of the so-called bedroom tax on discretionary housing payments (DHP), and what information it has on how many DHP (a) applications have been made and (b) awards have been granted by each local authority since April 2013, broken down by tenants in (i) council house, (ii) registered social landlord and (iii) privately-rented accommodation.
To ask the Scottish Government how many complaints have been received by each local authority regarding nuisance gulls in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many breeding pairs of gull there have been in each of the last 10 years, broken down by species.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of increases to VAT and national insurance since 2010 on families from low income households.
To ask the Scottish Government whether an analysis has been undertaken of whether there has been any additional workload for GPs arising from the implementation of welfare reform policies.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-15020 by Alex Neil on 30 May 2013, whether it has had discussions with the UK Government regarding increased funding in relation to any increase in the number of requests to GPs for letters and other information in support of benefit applications and appeals.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent contact it has had with GPs and their representative bodies regarding any increase in the number of patients seeking letters and other information in support of benefit applications and appeals.
To ask the Scottish Government what impact its decision to protect funding for the council tax benefit successor scheme for 2013-14 will have on the incomes of households containing an adult receiving a disability-related benefit.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it will consider looking at establishing a parliamentary internship scheme to commemorate the life and work of Brian Adam.
To ask the Scottish Government what actions it plans to take to protect Scotland's agricultural produce if restrictions are eased on the cultivation of genetically modified crops.