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-17500
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 8 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the needs of disabled people will be taken into account in the next ScotRail franchise.
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Question reference: S4W-17498
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 8 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to reduce the length of notice that disabled people have to give rail companies before setting out on their journey.
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Question reference: S4W-17501
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 8 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how it makes disabled people aware of their rights in relation to rail travel.
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Question reference: S4W-17447
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 8 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether children in kinship and foster care have the same access to (a) housing benefit, (b) carers respite, (c) psychological services and (d) educational services.
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Question reference: S4W-17442
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 8 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what its average annual expenditure will be for (a) formal and (b) informal kinship care placements if kinship care orders are introduced and what information it has on what the cost will be for local authorities.
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Question reference: S4W-17439
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 8 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many carers with (a) formal and (b) informal care arrangements receive financial support packages from their local authority.
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Question reference: S4W-17444
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 8 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether children in kinship care have comparable needs to those in foster or residential care.
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Question reference: S4W-17441
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 8 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what the average cost has been of keeping a child in (a) residential, (b) foster and (c) kinship care in each of the last three years and what research it has carried out on the cost differentials.
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Question reference: S4W-17438
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 8 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the so-called Munby judgement (R v Manchester Council, ex parte L and others, and ex parte R and others), has had on its approach on differences between how foster and kinship carers are treated.
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Question reference: S4W-17295
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities last met the major energy companies to discuss fuel poverty and when the next meeting is planned.