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
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Question reference: S6W-20161
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 10 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can detail any (a) internal and (b) external discussions it has had regarding a permanent memorial to the victims of forced adoption, since the First Minister's statement to the Parliament on historic forced adoption on 22 March 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-20160
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 10 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to make access to adoption records easier, since the First Minister's statement to the Parliament on historic forced adoption on 22 March 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-20159
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 10 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide an update on the date on which it will publish the study that it has commissioned on the support that people with experience of forced adoption can access, as referred to in the First Minister’s statement to the Parliament on historic forced adoption on 22 March 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-20170
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 9 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-18723 by Graeme Day on 20 June 2023, whether it can provide an update on its progress towards delivering a Scottish Education Exchange Programme.
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Question reference: S6W-19642
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 9 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what consultation it undertook with the Educational Institute of Scotland Further Education Lecturers Association (EIS-FELA) on the recommendation in the final report of the independent review of the skills delivery landscape, Fit for the Future: developing a post-school learning system to fuel economic transformation, to establish a single national funding body, including any amalgamation of responsibilities from Skills Development Scotland, the Scottish Funding Council and the Students Awards Agency for Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-20299
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 9 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-13295 by Michael Matheson on 22 December 2022, whether it plans to join the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance as a core member.
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Question reference: S6W-20298
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 9 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when its (a) ministers and (b) officials last discussed the issue of joining the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance as a core member.
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Question reference: S6W-20169
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 9 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is considering establishing or entering into a transnational vocational training scheme for apprentices.
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Question reference: S6W-20163
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 9 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent survey findings of the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland that, of the businesses that have never offered an apprenticeship, two fifths had not done so due to not having the financial resources to do so, and how it plans to address these findings.
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Question reference: S6W-20136
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 21 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 4 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many incidents of illegal scallop dredging in Marine Protected Areas have been reported since 2021.