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: S4W-21764
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 15 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20193 by Michael Russell on 1 April 2014, what (a) maximum and (b) minimum amount would be required for tuition fee costs supported by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland for 3,300 students, assuming that all were eligible for tuition fee support.
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Question reference: S4W-21766
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 15 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20193 by Michael Russell on 1 April 2014, whether it expects the Scottish Funding Council's announcement on 24 January 2014 of 3,300 more places to lead to a similar rise in the total number of students receiving tuition fee support from the Student Award Agency for Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-21765
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 15 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20193 by Michael Russell on 1 April 2014, what the cost would be to the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) for Young Students' Bursary and Independent Students' Bursary for 3,300 students if the students (a) followed the same pattern of distribution by income as the existing SAAS-supported undergraduate population and (b) were all assessed as eligible for the maximum bursary, assuming the same proportions for young and independent students as applied in 2013-14.
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Question reference: S4W-21767
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 15 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-20193 by Michael Russell on 1 April 2014, whether the 3,300 additional funded student places announced by the Scottish Funding Council on 24 January 2014 are expected to result in an additional number of eligible students being recruited to Scottish universities or are to provide funded places for existing levels of recruitment that were previously unfunded.
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Question reference: S4W-21887
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 June 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 3 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether the 6.3% fall in the Level 4 budget figure for education maintenance allowance (EMA) between 2013-14 and 2014-15 reflects the expected reduction in actual spending between the two years or an expectation that actual spending in 2013-14 would be closer to the reported actual spend of £27.8 million in 2012-13 than the £31.6 million budgeted for 2013-14.
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Question reference: S4W-21888
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 June 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 3 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide further detail regarding the "changing demographics in Scotland" affecting spending on education maintenance allowance that are referred to in the "explanation of significant changes from previous year" provided in the Level 4 spreadsheet for the 2014-15 budget.
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Question reference: S4O-03346
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 June 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 June 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how it supports victims of rape in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
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Question reference: S4O-03253
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 21 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the report of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which expressed concern at the under-representation of women and girls in so-called STEM apprenticeships in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4O-03222
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 May 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to address the educational attainment gap between children from different social backgrounds.
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Question reference: S4W-20687
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 April 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 May 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings (a) ministers and (b) officials have had with representatives of Portfolio Recovery Associates UK since 2011; who was present at each meeting, and what was discussed.
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