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.
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To ask the Scottish Government how many full-time equivalent civil servants were involved in the organisation and preparation of the Scotland’s Future public meetings, broken down by event.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-21284 by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 May 2014, what the total cost of the Scotland’s Future public meetings has been since 1 April 2014, also broken down by event.
To ask the Scottish Government how many civil servants attended each of the Scotland’s Future public meetings.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the government car service was used to transport ministers to Scotland’s Future public meetings.
To ask the Scottish Government what the reason is for the 13% increase in complaints about hospital and community health services and 36% increase in relation to family health services between 2011-12 and 2012-13.
To ask the Scottish Government what additional (a) funding and (b) bursary opportunities it will offer young carers who find it difficult to afford further education due to their caring responsibilities as highlighted by the Scottish Youth Parliament’s Care.Fair.Share campaign.
To ask the Scottish Government how it will address anomalies in the administration of the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) identified by the Scottish Youth Parliament’s Care.Fair.Share Campaign that result in many young carers losing their EMA entitlement.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to alleviate the cost of travel for young carers between school, work and home to fulfil their caring and education duties.
To ask the Scottish Government how many doctors left Scotland to work abroad in their Foundation Year (a) 1 and (b) 2 in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Government how many emergency medicine posts are unfilled, broken down by grade.