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: S4W-28684
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what discussion it has had with the Office for Budget Responsibility on forestalling in relation to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax and whether the figure has been revised.
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Question reference: S4W-28542
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 2 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how much was collected in Scotland from stamp duty in each month between April 2012 and March 2015.
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Question reference: S4W-28541
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 2 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how much it estimates the yield will be from the land and buildings transaction tax in each month from November 2015 to March 2016.
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Question reference: S4O-04893
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 2 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when the review of the new curriculum model at Hermitage Academy will report and what measures it considers are necessary to improve it for those about to sit examinations.
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Question reference: S4W-28580
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when it will provide a substantive answer to question S4W-27885, which received a holding answer on 3 November 2015, and what the reason is for the delay in providing such an answer.
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Question reference: S4W-28602
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-28210 by John Swinney on 13 November 2015, in light of the commitment made in the code, whether it will ensure that the list of gifts received will be published on a quarterly basis.
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Question reference: S4W-27885
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 October 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government which (a) government agencies, (b) non-departmental public bodies and (c) other arm's-length government bodies have pay bargaining units; how many employees there are in each, and what the salary cost is.
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Question reference: S4W-26590
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-26058 by John Swinney on 23 June 2015, by what date it will publish its response to the consultation.
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Question reference: S4W-28361
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 20 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when the funding for carer information strategies will stop.
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Question reference: S4W-28360
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 19 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will put transitional financial arrangements to cover any gap between the end of the carer information strategies funding and the commencement of funding from the Carers (Scotland) Bill.