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.
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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To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government’s target for building affordable homes will resolve the housing crisis that she referred to during First Minister's Questions on 7 January 2016.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the needs of pupils for whom English is an additional language and whether these are being met.
To ask the Scottish Government how many school pupils have been recorded as having English as an additional language (EAL) in each of the last five years, and how many staff have been trained in teaching EAL pupils.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce any excess mortality associated with weekend emergency admissions.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the conclusion of the study, Weekend admissions as an independent predictor of mortality: an analysis of Scottish hospital admissions, by Handel, Patel, Skingsley, Bramley, Sobieski and Ramagopalan that “there is still a significant excess mortality associated with weekend emergency admissions”.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people regularly volunteer.
To ask the Scottish Government what the findings were of the Demonstration Project and how it plans to follow up on the project.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people have volunteered in each of the last four years.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it expects the Scottish Patient Safety Programme to reduce any excess mortality associated with weekend emergency admissions.
To ask the Scottish Government whether an assessment has been made of whether the Scottish Patient Safety Programme reduces any excess mortality associated with weekend emergency admissions.