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: S5W-06394
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many graduates of a BA in Childhood Practice in each of the last 10 years were employed in nurseries, broken down by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation quintile of the location of the nurseries.
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Question reference: S5W-06391
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its recent announcement on funding for additional graduates for early learning and childcare, which nurseries will receive support, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S5W-06386
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many admissions there have been for a (a) BA in Childhood Practice and (b) Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (Primary) and, of those, how many people (i) completed, (ii) are still to complete and (iii) are no longer studying without completing the course in each of the last 10 years, also broken down by institution.
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Question reference: S5W-06401
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its recent announcement on funding for additional graduates for early learning and childcare, what (a) funding and (b) other measures there will be to increase awareness of routes into childcare.
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Question reference: S5W-06395
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its recent announcement on funding for additional graduates for early learning and childcare, what funding will be provided to local authorities to meet the costs of employing additional graduates.
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Question reference: S5W-06402
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its recent announcement on funding for additional graduates for early learning and childcare, how many existing qualified teachers or graduates will be encouraged to work in nurseries in the most deprived areas, and what action it will take to ensure that this does not have a detrimental effect on schools or other nurseries where they are currently working.
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Question reference: S5W-06396
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the impact would be on the number of (a) graduates of a BA in Childhood Practice and (b) teachers who are employed in nurseries of a reduction of £327 million to local government funding.
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Question reference: S5W-06398
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its recent announcement on funding for additional graduates for early learning and childcare, how it will ensure that 100 of the 126 additional teacher training graduates choose to work in nurseries.
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Question reference: S5W-06400
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its recent announcement on funding for additional graduates for early learning and childcare, how it will allow local government flexibility on allocation of additional places and ensure that each identified nursery receives a full-time equivalent graduate at the same time.
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Question reference: S5W-05855
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent in each of the last five years on (a) Developing the Young Workforce regional groups, (b) the Flexible Workforce Development Fund, (c) digital economy skills and business support, (d) the Voluntary Sector Development Fund, (e) early years recruitment and training, (f) the Transition Training Fund, (g) teacher training, (h) individual learning accounts, (i) support to employers to help disadvantaged young people access and sustain employment and (j) other workforce development programmes.
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