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-14414
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 7 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the findings of the assessment it carried out of the effects of the recent reduction on further education college budgets on (a) disabled people, (b) people with additional support requirements and (c) people entering college not directly from secondary school.
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Question reference: S4W-14415
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 7 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether there has been a reduction in the number of people with learning difficulties entering further education since 2007 and, if so, what its position is on this matter.
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Question reference: S4W-14160
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how many people in each NHS board area have multiple sclerosis.
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Question reference: S4W-14161
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how many people in each NHS board area have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the last three years.
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Question reference: S4W-14162
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support people with multiple sclerosis.
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Question reference: S4O-02100
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 May 2013
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on comments by the Chairman of the Yes Scotland campaign that a separate Scottish currency would give “more flexibility, more freedom” and “a wider range of economic levers” than its plans for a currency union.
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Question reference: S4W-14292
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4T-00311 by Michael Matheson on 16 April 2013 (Official Report, c.18528), how parents affected by (a) neonatal and (b) stillborn baby death will be represented on the independent commission to examine the policies and practices that are in place for handling ashes and cremated remains.
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Question reference: S4W-14296
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4T-00311 by Michael Matheson on 16 April 2013 (Official Report, c.18528), whether it will invite Dame Elish Angiolini to participate in the independent commission to examine the policies and practices that are in place for handling ashes and cremated remains and, if so, what role it will ask her to take.
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Question reference: S4W-14294
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4T-00311 by Michael Matheson on 16 April 2013 (Official Report, c.18528), whether the independent commission to examine the policies and practices that are in place for handling ashes and cremated remains will review the practices of (a) undertakers, (b) hospitals and (c) crematoria both in private and public.
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Question reference: S4W-14291
- Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4T-00311 by Michael Matheson on 16 April 2013 (Official Report, c.18528), what the (a) role and (b) remit will be of the independent commission to examine the policies and practices that are in place for handling ashes and cremated remains.
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