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 recent discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the effect on jobs for Scotland's workers of immigration waivers issued to employers in the offshore wind sector.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent assessment it has made of rates of pay for workers in the offshore (a) wind and (b) decommissioning industry.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding employment levels for Scotland's seafarers in the (a) offshore wind sector and (b) vessels that supply and support the offshore wind and oil and gas industries.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to recruit more pharmacists in (a) general practice and (b) community pharmacy.
To ask the Scottish Government how many students have enrolled on a MPharm undergraduate degree in Scotland in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Government how many newly-qualified pharmacists it expects to enter the workforce in each year from 2019 to 2024.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with UK Government regarding employment levels for Scotland's seafarers in the (a) passenger and (b) freight ferry sector.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the application of the national minimum wage for seafarers working on merchant vessels operating from Scotland's ports.
To ask the Scottish Government how many trains were (a) cancelled and (b) delayed on the Aberdeen- (i) Glasgow and (ii) Edinburgh route on 2 December 2018, which was the day that ScotRail's new timetable came into force, also broken down by the reason for the disruption; whether ScotRail's performance target for the service that day was met, and what discussions it has had with the operator regarding the disruption.
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) was the first and (b) will be the final date of payments of monthly unitary charge for (i) phase 1, (ii) phase 2 and (iii) phase 2a of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR).