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: S5T-00732
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 October 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that violent attacks and abuse towards staff in schools have risen by a third in three years.
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Question reference: S5W-11877
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 October 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the terms of reference are for the role of the chair of the Strategic Board for Enterprise and Skills.
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Question reference: S5W-11878
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 October 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what role the chair of the Strategic Board for Enterprise and Skills will have in education policy and governance.
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Question reference: S5W-11487
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 4 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how much it expects to receive in receipts from the Apprenticeship Levy in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19 and (c) 2019-20.
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Question reference: S5W-11492
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 4 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when the Consultation on Primary Authority Partnerships relating to Devolved Regulatory Responsibilities of Local Authorities ended, and what steps it has taken to introduce the scheme.
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Question reference: S5W-11483
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 3 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects VAT revenues to be assigned to it, and what its strategy will be for maximising these.
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Question reference: S5W-11486
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2017
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 3 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the economic impact will be of the increase in statutory minimum pension contributions in 2018, and what information it has regarding how many people in Scotland will be affected by the changes.
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Question reference: S5W-11488
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2017
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 3 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government which local authorities have implemented the local discretionary rates relief available each year under the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015, and what plans it has to encourage more local authorities to do so.
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Question reference: S5T-00707
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 02 October 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that there are almost twice as many under-10s being prescribed stimulants than there were in 2010.
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Question reference: S5W-11484
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2017
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 28 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of what the financial impact could be on consumers of the proposed deposit return scheme for drinks bottles and containers.
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