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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: S5O-00161

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its participation in the Brexit negotiations.

Question reference: S5W-00696

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 21 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has invested in organisations that help improve the lives of LGBTI people.

Since 2011, the Scottish Government has invested almost £5 million (£4,953,102) in LGBT organisations across Scotland. This funding helps to inform policy development on key priority issues for the LGBTI community, promote equality for LGBTI people and address prejudice and discrimination. As well as providing frontline services, this funding supports engagement with communities, builds capacity building and helps to support leadership in relation to LGBTI issues across Scotland.

Question reference: S4O-05695

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 23 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress toward achieving its target of 500 living wage employers.

Earlier this month (during the SNP Conference on 12 March 2016), the First Minister announced that the target of 500 Scots-based living wage accredited employers has been achieved ahead of schedule. This is thanks to the hard work and dedication of the Poverty Alliance team who have worked tirelessly over the last few years to sign up as many employers as possible, and who are now working towards achieving a further target of 1,000 accredited employers by autumn 2017.

These efforts are part of the reason why Scotland has the highest proportion of people paid the living wage outside the South-east of England.

And this is why I am delighted to announce that the Scottish Government will increase our funding to the Scottish Living Wage Accreditation Initiative, pledging a further £300,000 to this important project in an effort to ensure as many people, and employers, as possible can benefit from the ‘real’ living wage.

Question reference: S4O-05680

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 March 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support the steel industry.

Question reference: S4F-03236

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 08 February 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 February 2016

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s position is on the impact in Scotland of planned UK reductions to housing benefits for vulnerable people who stay in supported and women’s aid refuge accommodation.

Question reference: S4W-28951

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 December 2015
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Marco Biagi on 11 December 2015

To ask the Scottish Government when the report by the Commission on Local Tax Reform will be published.

Question reference: S4O-04880

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 December 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support children in kinship care.

Question reference: S4O-04853

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 25 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what youth music initiatives it supports in the Central Scotland region.

The Scottish Government supports a number of youth music initiatives across Central Scotland, many of which are part of the overall Youth Music Initiative (YMI) programme that supports 225,000 children across Scotland and receives annual funding of £10 million. The recent independent evaluation of the YMI indicated that it fosters and develops children's and young people's musical skills and supports more than 300 projects each year in every local authority.

In 2015-16 around £1.1 million has been awarded through YMI School Based Music Making fund to the Central Scotland local authorities of North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire and Falkirk.

In 2015-16, £35,615 has been awarded so far through the YMI Access to Music Making fund to support out of school activity in the Central Scotland region.

Question reference: S4O-04773

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 November 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what the Cabinet Secretary for Justice's response is to reported concerns that some retail thefts are directly attributed to hunger.

Question reference: S4O-04752

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 November 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing in Central Scotland to promote responsible driving.