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-20433
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 16 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that the use of private tutors reinforces educational inequalities.
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Question reference: S4W-20430
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 16 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what data it collects on the (a) prevalence and (b) uptake of private tutors.
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Question reference: S4W-20432
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 16 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had with representatives of (a) Kip McGrath, (b) Explore Learning, (c) Home Tuition Scotland, (d) Super Tutors Scotland and (e) First Tutors since May 2011, and what was discussed on each occasion.
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Question reference: S4W-20434
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 16 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what it considers the reasons are for the reported rapid increase in the use of private tutors for schoolchildren.
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Question reference: S4W-20431
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 16 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether it, or any of its agencies, encourages the use of private tutors in the school education system.
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Question reference: S4W-20435
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 16 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the statement in the Holyrood Magazine of 19 March 2014 that "hundreds more parents, concerned about the troubled implementation of new qualifications in Scotland, have turned to private tuition for their children at a cost of thousands of pounds per child".
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Question reference: S4W-20429
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 March 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 16 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met representatives of private tutors and what was discussed.
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Question reference: S4W-20193
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 March 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 1 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-18330 by Michael Russell on 28 November 2013, as the budget assumed that the student population would be maintained at current levels, how much the Scottish Funding Council's subsequent announcement on 24 January 2014 that there will be 3,300 more places in 2014-15 will cost the Student Awards Agency For ScotlandĀ in the payment of additional (a) student support and (b) tuition fees.
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Question reference: S4W-20238
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 March 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 March 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether ministers can access correspondence from MSPs to heads of NDPBs and arms-length organisations.
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Question reference: S4W-20240
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 March 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 March 2014
To ask the Scottish Government on what occasions it has requested from NDPBs or arms-length organisations copies of any (a) emails and (b) written correspondence sent by MSPs.
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