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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: S4O-05279

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 January 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs last met Glasgow City Council.

Question reference: S4O-04901

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 December 2015

To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs last met Creative Scotland and what issues were discussed.

Question reference: S4O-04783

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 November 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities last met Glasgow City Council and what issues were discussed.

Question reference: S4O-04294

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 May 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to assess and sustain the levels of support staff in schools.

Question reference: S4O-04211

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Current Status: Answered by Marco Biagi on 2 April 2015

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met Glasgow City Council and what issues were discussed.

Question reference: S4W-24446

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 25 February 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to support people with a gambling addiction.

The Scottish Government is committed to delivering faster access to psychological therapies for people with mental illness or disorders, including those who are addicted to gambling which is recognised as a type of impulse-control disorder. The delivery of psychological therapies is a core part of NHS activity, all of which is fully funded by the Scottish Government. NHS boards have made good progress in recent years in improving access to many psychological therapies.

Question reference: S4W-24447

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 16 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 23 February 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to record the number of people sleeping rough.

The Scottish Government asks local authorities to submit data on rough sleeping though the HL1 homelessness data collection.

The HL1 data collection asks the following two questions on rough sleeping:

Has any member of the applicant household slept rough during the three months preceding their application?

Did any member of the applicant household sleep rough on the night immediately preceding the date of application?

Information on rough sleeping is published in the annual homelessness statistics. The most recent statistics on rough sleeping for 2013-14 are available at:

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2014/06/3967/3.

Question reference: S4O-04030

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 19 February 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to tackle homelessness.

Tackling and preventing homelessness is a priority for the Scottish Government and work to address this is overseen by the Homelessness Prevention and Strategy Group, on which I sit as minister with our partners.

Homelessness has been falling in recent years and this has continued in the most recent statistics published in January, when homelessness applications fell by 3% on the previous year.

This is due to the steps we have taken to support local authorities and others to prevent homelessness through the development of the housing options approach.

Question reference: S4O-04033

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 February 2015

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the findings of its consultation on the future of land reform.

Question reference: S4O-03868

Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 7 January 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made with the establishment of a Scottish land reform commission.

The current consultation on the future of land reform in Scotland proposes a package of measures to further the land reform agenda in Scotland, including the formation of a Scottish land reform commission.

There are questions in the current consultation designed to help develop the structure, role and remit of the proposed Scottish land reform commission. We anticipate that the commission could have oversight of a number of matters including the promotion of land reform, collecting evidence, carrying out studies and monitoring the impact and effect of law, policies and practices on land ownership in Scotland.

We very much look forward to responses to the consultation on all of our proposals for furthering land reform in Scotland.