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: S6W-24455
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-23874 by Jenny Gilruth on 8 January 2024, whether it plans to uprate, by inflation in future years, the ringfenced funding that it provides to local authorities annually for the provision of additional support assistants.
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Question reference: S6W-24456
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates that an updated additional support for learning code of practice will be published.
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Question reference: S6W-24454
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-23870 by Jenny Gilruth on 8 January 2024, what analysis it is undertaking of any reasons for probationer teachers reportedly being less likely to opt in to the preference waiver scheme since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S6W-24247
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it expects the updated Respect for All guidance to be published, and whether it will be published in the current academic year.
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Question reference: S6W-24393
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when the Gender Equality Taskforce in Education and Learning last met, and what was discussed.
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Question reference: S6W-24453
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-23872 by Jenny Gilruth on 8 January 2024, how the £11 million of funding that it provided to directly support pupils with complex additional support needs has been distributed, and how the spending of this funding has been monitored and recorded.
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Question reference: S6W-24249
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates that it will update local authorities on its expectations regarding the use of the £900,000 allocated for training for staff to tackle post-COVID-19 pandemic challenges in schools.
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Question reference: S6W-24474
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it expects to have confirmed a university to lead the Centre of Teaching Excellence.
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Question reference: S6O-03000
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support people with diabetes.
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Question reference: S6W-23877
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 17 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what the legislative framework is for providing young disabled people with a plan for their transitions from school to adulthood, and what its position is on whether it should include a guarantee that it is started from no later than their 14th birthday.