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-31953
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be on the income of Business Stream in 2020-21.
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Question reference: S5W-31599
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 1 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-31447 by Jeane Freeman on 3 September 2020, what steps it is taking to provide permanent COVID-19 testing facilities in the Dumbarton constituency.
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Question reference: S5W-31913
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 30 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in establishing the data gathering mechanisms required to enable the Scottish National Investment Bank to fulfil its statutory obligations regarding intersectional gender-sensitive sex-disaggregated data on its activities.
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Question reference: S5W-31912
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 30 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on the development of the Scottish National Investment Bank’s statutory Gender Equality Strategy, and whether the Bank will have a gender equality strategy at its launch.
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Question reference: S5W-31915
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 30 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how equality and non-discrimination have informed the missions consulted on in the proposal to set missions for the Scottish National Investment Bank.
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Question reference: S5W-31825
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 29 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it can calculate the cost of staff time to answer FOI requests but is unable to provide information to a parliamentary committee regarding the cost of staff time in the work of preparing for the judicial review into the handling of sexual harassment complaints.
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Question reference: S5W-31824
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 29 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many civil servants were involved in the work preparing for the judicial review into the handling of sexual harassment complaints, broken down by (a) the hours that they were involved and (b) salary band.
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Question reference: S5W-31446
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many COVID-19 tests were carried out at the mobile testing units that were stationed in (a) Helensburgh on 27-28 July 2020 and (b) Dumbarton on 28 July to 2 August 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-31598
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-31447 by Jeane Freeman on 3 September 2020, on how many occasions a COVID-19 mobile testing unit has visited (a) Helensburgh, (b) Dumbarton and (c) Vale of Leven, broken down by (i) date and (ii) the number of people seen.
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Question reference: S5W-31600
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many COVID-19 mobile testing units have closed during advertised operational hours because of a lack of booked appointments, broken down by (a) date and (b) location.
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