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-35616
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 11 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the First Minister on 2 February 2021 (Official Report, c. 13), whether the sectors covered by the expansion of routine workforce COVID-19 testing will include (a) transport and (b) offshore energy production.
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Question reference: S5W-35533
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 25 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 5 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03736 by Keith Brown on 31 October 2016, whether it will provide the information for 2020-21, also broken down by what information it has regarding which companies received funding; how much they received, and the purpose of their award.
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Question reference: S5W-35532
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 25 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-28271 by John Swinney on 20 April 2020, whether it will provide the information for 2020 regarding the number of additional support for learning (a) teachers and (b) classroom assistants there were in each local authority.
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Question reference: S5W-35218
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 1 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the COVID-19 testing for school staff and senior pupils will cover early years' staff, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S5W-35568
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 26 February 2021
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its progress implementing the recommendations of the review of personal and social education.
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Question reference: S5W-35531
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 25 February 2021
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the information ordinarily included in the Pupil Census Supplementary Statistics 2020 will be published before 25 March 2021.
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Question reference: S5W-35145
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide further information on the mitigation and safety measures that it is putting in place for the reopening of schools for P1 to P3 pupils.
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Question reference: S5W-35292
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how external input will be fed into the OECD Review of Curriculum for Excellence and (b) whether this will include the acceptance of written evidence.
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Question reference: S5W-35163
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 24 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it will next update the guidance on care home visiting during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S5W-34206
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 23 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the statistics published by Public Health Scotland on 16 December 2020, which suggests that teachers are more likely to contract COVID-19 than the general working-age population, what consideration has been given to the prioritisation of school staff in the vaccine roll-out.