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
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Question reference: S5W-12413
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 15 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11406 by Jamie Hepburn on 3 October 2017, what assessment it has made of the capacity that is required to deliver statutory advocacy for care-experienced young people.
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Question reference: S5W-12416
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 15 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11416 by Mark McDonald on 3 October 2017, for what reason it does not collect national data on the number of care-experienced young people who receive independent advocacy.
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Question reference: S5W-12415
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 15 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11416 by Mark McDonald on 3 October 2017, which advocacy providers it has been working with to develop a sustainable model of advocacy provision for care-experienced young people.
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Question reference: S5W-12401
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 15 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11419 by Mark McDonald on 2 October 2017, apart from Continuing Care and GIRFEC, what plans it has to reduce the death rates of care-experienced young people.
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Question reference: S5W-12402
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 15 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11419 by Mark McDonald on 2 October 2017, what plans it has to set up a system to ensure that the causes of deaths in relation to looked-after young people are reviewed and learned from.
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Question reference: S5W-12403
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 15 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11424 by Mark McDonald on 2 October 2017, what the (a) take-up rate is and (b) eligibility criteria are for projects that support the rehabilitation of care-experienced young people leaving prison.
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Question reference: S5W-12418
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 15 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether any statutory right to advocacy would have to be linked to ring-fenced funding to ensure that it could be realised.
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Question reference: S5W-12406
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 14 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11423 by Mark McDonald on 2 October 2017, when the Independent Care Review will report its findings and recommendations to ministers.
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Question reference: S5W-12400
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 14 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11403 by John Swinney on 29 September 2017, what plans it has to address the issue that looked-after young people are seven times more likely to be expelled from school.
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Question reference: S5W-12411
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 14 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11406 by Jamie Hepburn on 3 October 2017, how many of the care-experienced young people being recruited by Our Hearing-Our Voice for the children’s hearing system will be in (a) full- and (b) part-time permanent positions.
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