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-23455
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-22836 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 May 2019, what the secretary of state's response was to the cabinet secretary's further letter.
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Question reference: S5W-23467
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) staffing hours and (b) financial resources it has committed to update the social security programme business case.
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Question reference: S5W-23459
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when the work to update the social security programme business case (a) began and (b) is expected to conclude.
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Question reference: S5W-23460
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when the work to review the social security programme governance arrangements (a) began and (b) is expected to conclude.
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Question reference: S5W-23453
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-22836 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 May 2019, whether the DWP has agreed to take into account the individual's circumstances when recovering overpayments, and how many claimants have had recovery action reduced as a result of the cabinet secretary's correspondence.
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Question reference: S5W-23461
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when the review of the social security programme planning arrangements (a) began and (b) is expected to conclude.
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Question reference: S5W-23424
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 4 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government which branches form the Social Security Reserved Benefits and Strategic Engagement Division; what the function of each is, and how many staff there are in each, broken down by (a) headcount and (b) FTE.
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Question reference: S5W-23204
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 4 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much (a) its Social Security Directorate and (b) Social Security Scotland paid to Capita in 2018-19, and what these payments were for.
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Question reference: S5W-23361
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 4 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-22962 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 2 May 2019, whether it can now provide the information that was requested regarding how many of its social security (a) programme, (b) directorate and (c) agency staff have previously been employed by the DWP, in light of the comment by Audit Scotland at Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee on 16 May 2019 (Official Report, c.5) that "there are lots of people working in the programme who have worked at the Department for Work and Pensions or in other big change programmes across the UK, and they bring that experience into the Scottish Government", and what information it supplied to Audit Scotland to support the evidence that was provided.
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Question reference: S5W-23367
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 4 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when the findings of its consultation on disability assistance in Scotland will be published.