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-09940
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills on 15 June 2017 (Official Report, c. 46), how it will ensure that the delivery of education remains democratically accountable to local authorities after further powers are devolved to head teachers.
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Question reference: S5W-09678
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government on what dates it has met Teach First since May 2016 and what was discussed.
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Question reference: S5W-09287
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether a Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment has been performed for the proposed cadet experience, and whether the results of this will be published.
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Question reference: S5W-09291
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 8 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-07573 by John Swinney on 8 March 2017, what its position is on written answer HL1278/2015 in the House of Lords, in which the Under Secretary of State for Scotland indicates that a “linked detachment program” operates in six Scottish state schools, which uses “the army cadet force syllabus” to “extend the cadet experience into state schools”.
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Question reference: S5W-09288
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 8 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what voluntary opportunities, which are accredited by the Scottish Qualifications Authority, there are in schools for people who are opposed to the military’s involvement in education, and how these are promoted to pupils.
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Question reference: S5O-01101
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what role it considers the arms industry should have in education.
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Question reference: S5W-09285
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on whether any sexual assaults of cadets in the Ministry of Defence's care happened (a) in Scotland and (b) to Scottish children.
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Question reference: S5W-09286
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it was aware that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) reportedly paid out £2 million between 2011 and 2014 to cadets who experienced sexual assaults while in the care of the MoD and, in light of this, what its position is on the appropriateness of the cadet experience syllabus for Scottish schools.
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Question reference: S5W-09402
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 7 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase the proportion of ScotRail services that are fully accessible to disabled people.
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Question reference: S5W-09401
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 7 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what percentage of ScotRail passenger services have run without at least one additional onboard staff member in each year since 2010-11.