Questions and answers
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
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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Question reference: S4W-06018
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to raise awareness among young people of what constitutes sexual violence and rape.
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Question reference: S4W-05700
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 13 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what the relationship is between its proposed Rights of Children and Young People Bill and support for UNICEF’s Rights Respecting Schools programme.
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Question reference: S4W-06041
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 13 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of workplace racial discrimination have been reported in NHS Scotland in each of the last three years for which information is available, also broken down by NHS board and expressed as a percentage of each board's staff complement, and how many of these reports related to incidents of discrimination by (a) staff and (b) members of the public on staff.
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Question reference: S4W-05902
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 12 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it offers to areas such as Portobello to (a) maintain and (b) promote their status as seaside destinations.
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Question reference: S4W-06077
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 12 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average debt is of a student graduating with a postgraduate qualification in educational psychology.
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Question reference: S4W-06073
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 12 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has assessed the impact of changes to the funding of educational psychology postgraduate qualifications on the (a) number of applications and (b) social and economic demographics of applicants.
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Question reference: S4W-06075
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 12 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in each of the last three years have received a full postgraduate grant to study educational psychology at a higher education institution in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-06080
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 12 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive how many fully qualified educational psychologists have been employed by each local authority in each of the last three years.
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Question reference: S4W-06076
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 12 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of study is for a person seeking a postgraduate qualification in educational psychology.
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Question reference: S4W-05885
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 8 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason Transport Scotland officials were removed from the management board of the Edinburgh trams project in 2007.