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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.

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Question reference: S5W-15564

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) the Cabinet Secretary for Education Skills or (b) a special adviser cleared the publication of the response to the Freedom of Information (FOI) request, FOI/18/02950, regarding correspondence with Children in Scotland

Question reference: S5W-15563

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) the Cabinet Secretary for Education Skills or (b) a special adviser cleared the publication of the response to the Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, (i) FOI/17/02966, (ii) FOI//17/02967 and (iii) FOI/17/02968, regarding internal and external correspondence in relation to meetings that it has held.

Question reference: S5W-15566

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will list each of the organisations that engaged with its officials in October and November 2017 regarding the Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill and confirm on what dates the engagements took place.

Officials engaged with the following stakeholders in relation the Information Sharing Bill in October and November.

Stakeholder	When
Scottish Prison Service	3-10-2017
National Implementation Support Group	11-10-2017
Police Scotland	17-10-2017
Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice	19-10-2017
CELCIS	19-10-2017
Children and Young People Commissioner Scotland	19-10-2017
Colleges Scotland	23-10-2017
NATSUWT	24-10-2017
Christian Science	24-10-2017
Draft Statutory Guidance Meeting	25-10-2017
Joint meeting with Aberlour and Barnardo’s	26-10-2017
Scottish Guidance Association	2-10-2017
CELCIS	10-10-2017
Barnardo’s	13-10-2017
Care Inspectorate	18-10-2017
Families Outside	30-10-2017
Coalition of Care Providers Scotland Meeting	2-11-2017
Aberlour	3-11-2017
EIS	7-11-2017
Named Person Service Providers	14-11-2017
Medical Meeting	14-11-2017
Joint Nursing and Midwifery Meeting	23-11-2017
Children in Scotland	10-10-2017
Social Work Scotland	13-10-2017
Children in Scotland	13-10-2017
Children 1 st	13-10-2017
Children in Scotland	31-10-2017

Question reference: S5W-15555

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12220 by John Swinney on 7 November 2017, on what date the cabinet secretary instructed his officials to engage with each of the organisations.

As detailed in the response to S5W-12220 the Scottish Government has continued stakeholder engagement since the introduction of the Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill in June 2017.

As I set out in my letter to the Education and Skills Committee on 15 March 2018, it is entirely right and proper for the Scottish Government to discuss policy options with stakeholders throughout the passage of the Information Sharing Bill. I discuss stakeholder engagement with officials on an on-going basis and am and remain fully aware of engagement undertaken by officials in relation to the Bill.

Question reference: S5W-15561

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills or (b) a special adviser cleared the publication of the response to the Freedom of Information (FOI) request, FOI/17/02787, regarding the Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill.

Question reference: S5W-15560

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills or (b) a special adviser cleared the publication of the response to the Freedom of Information (FOI) request, FOI/17/02462, regarding the set up costs of the Named Person scheme.

Question reference: S5W-15565

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will list each of the organisations that engaged with its special advisers in October and November 2017 regarding the Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill and confirm on what dates the engagements took place.

Special advisers engaged with the following stakeholders in relation the Information Sharing Bill in October and November.

Stakeholder	When
Social Work Scotland	2-10-2017, 6-11-2017
Tam Baillie, former SCCYP	12-10-2017
Children 1 st	31-10-2017
Aberlour	2-11-2017
Children in Scotland	3-11-2017
Barnardo’s	7-11-2017
Save the Children	17-11-2017

Special Advisors also engaged with political parties on the Information Sharing Bill over a range of dates, however we do not hold a list of dates on which such routine, informal conversations took place.

Question reference: S5W-15562

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) the Cabinet Secretary for Education Skills or (b) a special adviser cleared the publication of the response to the Freedom of Information (FOI) request, FOI/17/02940, regarding evidence given in relation to the Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill.

Question reference: S5W-15559

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills or (b) a special adviser cleared the publication of the response to the Freedom of Information (FOI) request, FOI/18/00444, regarding the Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill.

Question reference: S5W-15556

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 April 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter to the Education and Skills Committee by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills on 15 March 2018, on what date the engagement with Children in Scotland took place.