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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-05181

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 December 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how youth employment in Scotland compares with the rest of the EU.

Question reference: S4O-04756

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what is being done to address domestic abuse incidents in the north east.

Question reference: S4O-04677

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 October 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to address the reported teacher shortage in the north east.

Question reference: S4O-04571

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 September 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to protect employment in the Fraserburgh area.

Question reference: S4O-04473

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what matters the Islands Transport Forum will discuss at its first meeting.

Question reference: S4O-04401

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether the futures programme is on track to receive all single application forms for rural payments and services by 15 June 2015.

Question reference: S4O-04298

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 May 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made with NorthConnect's £2 billion power scheme between Aberdeenshire and Scandinavia.

Question reference: S4O-04143

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 18 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking in the north east to help develop language skills that will bring more international business to the area.

Our commitment to stronger languages provision in schools is fundamentally linked to our ambitions for business growth throughout Scotland (as underlined in our economic strategy).

We are already starting to see exciting changes in what schools are offering and in what young people expect to be able to learn, to equip them for life and work.

Since 2010 there has been a 8% increase in Higher language entries.

There is a clear potential impact on inward investment: at a recent Aberdeen ‘Business Breakfast’ event, Total UK and Barclays Bank were amongst employers emphasising the value of language skills in their workforces to young people from local high schools.

Question reference: S4O-04080

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that patient feedback is an important part of improving NHS service provision and, if so, how it encourages such feedback.

Yes. The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring a culture of openness and transparency within our NHS, which actively welcomes all forms of feedback as a tool for continuous improvement. The Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011 introduced new patient rights and principles for the delivery of healthcare, including a specific right for people to complain, raise concerns, make comments and give feedback about NHS services. It also placed a duty on the NHS to encourage, monitor, take action and share learning from the views they receive.

Question reference: S4O-03959

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 28 January 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what progress North East Scotland College has made following the recent merger.

The college has made excellent progress and is a great example of what can be achieved by regional colleges of scale.

For instance, as an early adopter of the Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce programme, the college is at forefront of developing new vocational pathways for school pupils focussed on STEM provision.

Moreover, the college plans to fund a new state of the art centre for oil and gas at the Fraserburgh campus. Investment in Fraserburgh of this scale would simply not have been feasible for the much smaller and financially restricted Banff and Buchan College.