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: S5W-07330
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of newly qualified teachers did not enter into (a) full- or (b) part-time teaching posts in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5O-00672
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to tackle livestock worrying.
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Question reference: S5W-06735
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 8 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06335 by John Swinney on 30 January 2017, whether it will provide an answer to the question that was asked on what discussions it has had with the board of the Scottish Funding Council regarding the Scottish Government's plan to abolish the board, and what response it received
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Question reference: S5W-06613
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish correspondence between ministers and the Scottish Funding Council between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2016, which related to the purpose of the £50 million in additional funding that the Scottish Government clawed back in 2015-16.
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Question reference: S5W-06550
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what financial resources will be made available to the Commissioner for Fair Access in order to commission the research data that needs to be compiled to inform his work.
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Question reference: S5W-06611
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason some of the additional £50 million funds allocated to the Scottish Funding Council in 2011 was not passed on to higher education institutions as originally intended.
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Question reference: S5W-06612
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) was engaged in discussions with higher education institutions about how to spend £50 million on campus development projects after the SFC had been notified in the Financial Report to its board in February 2014 that the Scottish Government would claw back this money.
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Question reference: S5W-06335
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the board of the Scottish Funding Council regarding the Scottish Government's plan to abolish the board, and what response it received.
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Question reference: S5W-06249
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its report, SCOTLAND CAN DO - Boosting Scotland’s Innovation Performance, makes no reference to UK Research and Innovation, Innovate UK or Research Councils UK.
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Question reference: S5W-06107
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Scottish Funding Council returned to it the £50 million underspend that it reported for 2015-16.