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: S6W-18146
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how it plans to implement the recommendations of the Strathesk lessons learned report.
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Question reference: S6W-18140
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to Colleges Scotland's estimation that meeting the current pay offer, of a 7% cumulative pay rise over the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years, would cost the sector £40.4 million in total.
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Question reference: S6W-18139
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported student petitions protesting cuts to further and higher education budgets.
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Question reference: S6W-18137
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Minister for Higher and Further Education to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 2 May 2023, on what date the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills identified the now withdrawn £26 million of funding for colleges as a "necessary saving".
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Question reference: S6W-18142
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government for what purpose the £26 million previously allocated to the college sector in the Scottish Budget 2023-24 was redeployed.
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Question reference: S6W-18185
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 June 2023
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Question reference: S6O-02337
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it will put in place to support women in the immediate days and weeks after they leave a coercive and abusive relationship.
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Question reference: S6W-18144
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 31 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will set out what it anticipates a "more significant and recognised role for colleges" will look like.
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Question reference: S6W-18138
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 31 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting colleges to educate and train students in a financially sustainable manner.
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Question reference: S6W-18143
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 31 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will set out its vision for the college sector.
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