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: S5W-27268
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 3 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what support for travel costs is available to apprentices, and how much it has spent on this in each year since 2007-08.
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Question reference: S5W-27270
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 3 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many university applicants domiciled in Scotland did not receive an offer from any institution in Scotland but were accepted by an institution in the rest of the UK in the last year.
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Question reference: S5W-27273
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 3 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has sought updated legal advice since September 2014 on the position of an independent Scotland in relation to (a) membership or accession to the EU, (b) currency, (c) involvement in the Schengen Agreement, (d) border controls or cross-border trade and (e) involvement in international defence co-operation.
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Question reference: S5W-27271
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 3 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many European nationals domiciled outside of the UK received funded places at a university in Scotland in the last year.
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Question reference: S5W-27278
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what income Transport Scotland has derived from the installation of brown tourist information signs in each year since 2007-08, also broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S5W-27277
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 February 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many additional miles of the (a) A9 and (b) A96 road have been dualled in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-27272
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 February 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many police station front counters have been open in each council area in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5O-04224
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that all information required and requested by the OECD as part of the review of the curriculum for excellence will be made available.
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Question reference: S5W-27369
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 26 February 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much money from the Employability Fund has been spent in each year since 2017-18, also broken down by provider.
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Question reference: S5W-27367
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 26 February 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much money from the Apprenticeship Levy has been spent in each year since 2017-18, also broken down by programme.