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 what measures it has taken to standardise the definition of “looked-after children”.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) care leavers, (b) former offenders and (c) young carers have been assisted by the Employer Recruitment Incentive for Targeted Young People.
To ask the Scottish Government how much money has been (a) committed to and (b) spent by the Employer Recruitment Incentive for Targeted Young People.
To ask the Scottish Government how it encourages employers to recruit (a) people with learning difficulties and (b) care leavers through the modern apprenticeship programme.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will expand the Make Young People Your Business campaign to promote the merits of employing (a) care leavers and (b) people with learning difficulties.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Procurement Reform Bill will have community benefit clauses regarding (a) young people with learning difficulties and (b) care leavers.
To ask the Scottish Government how it helps (a) people with complex needs and (b) care leavers moving from (i) further and (ii) higher education into (A) employment and (B) continuing education.
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it has taken to improve the (a) employment and training prospects and (b) health and wellbeing of (i) care leavers and (ii) people with learning difficulties since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) people with learning difficulties and (b) care leavers have been in employment in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it had provisional calculations as to how much local authorities could have gained from maximising business rates income under the business rates incentivisation scheme targets in place before the current review.