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.
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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To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the closure of music departments in educational establishments and what action it will take to support the teaching of music at all educational levels.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many classes, workshops and teaching sessions in further education have been either (a) reduced in number, (b) shortened or (c) merged as a result of its 2011-12 budget decisions.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses in further education may result from reductions in teaching budgets for 2011-12.
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on whether the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999 should be revoked and whether it plans to take any action in this regard.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made an assessment of the impact on further education of the decision to reduce the Scottish Funding Council’s budget for 2011-12.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people will enter further education in 2011-12 and whether it expects the intake of young people to (a) higher and (b) further education in this period to be higher than in previous years.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of youth unemployment is in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason further education colleges will receive, according to the EIS, a 10.4% reduction in their teaching grants for 2011-12 and a 52% reduction in capital funding over the same period.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to include the teaching of emergency life support skills in schools.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has meetings planned with the UK Government to discuss the impact of the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999.