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
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Question reference: S5W-19458
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 14 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Cold Weather Payments Ten Minute Rule Bill, which is due to have its second reading in the UK Parliament on 23 November 2018 and which re-examines the way that weather data that triggers cold weather payments is gathered.
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Question reference: S5W-19467
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 14 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13171 by Jeane Freeman on 21 December 2017, whether the commitment to extend Winter Fuel Payments to families with disabled children on the higher rate of Disability Living Allowance will be dependent on the higher rate of the care component, mobility component, either component or both, and, in light of the reference in the answer, when the ongoing policy development process on this proposal began, including direct engagement with engagement panels.
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Question reference: S5W-19466
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 14 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13172 by Jeane Freeman on 21 December 2017, at what rate Winter Fuel Payments will be made to families with disabled children on the higher rate of Disability Living Allowance, and, in light of its commitment to consult the experience panels, and according to the Experience Panels Research Plan 2018-19, for what reason this has not yet commenced.
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Question reference: S5W-19465
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 14 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13171 by Jeane Freeman on 21 December 2017, for what reason the experience panels are required to consider precise eligibility of extending winter fuel payments to families with disabled children on the higher rate of Disability Living Allowance, in light of it having made this commitment in its Programme for Government 2016-17 and in its answer to question S5W-02679 by Jeane Freeman on 15 September 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-19468
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 14 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-13172, S5W-13171 and S5W-13158 by Jeane Freeman on 21 December 2017, when direct engagement with the experience panels regarding (a) extending Winter Fuel Payments to families with disabled children on the higher rate of Disability Living Allowance and (b) winter fuel payment policy development, began, and for what reason this research project is not listed in the Experience Panels Research Plan 2018-19.
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Question reference: S5W-19501
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 14 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has asked the UK Government lay commencement regulations under section 23 of the Scotland Act 2016 for for the purposes of having executive competence for the delivery of (a) cold-spell heating assistance and (b) winter heating assistance by Social Security Scotland and, if so, what the outcome was.
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Question reference: S5W-19692
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 14 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what Social Security Scotland's staffing costs were in (a) September and (b) October 2018.
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Question reference: S5W-19086
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 13 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been paid in service fees to Fair Start Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-19404
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 13 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has instructed the DWP, under its agency agreement, not to recover, fine or prosecute a recipient of carer's allowance whose earnings have breached the earnings threshold.
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Question reference: S5W-19666
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 13 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many people applied to be on Social Security Scotland's Executive Advisory Body, and how many had a protected characteristic, broken down by characteristic.