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-19726
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when sections 12, 13 and 14 of the Social Security Act 2018 will be commenced.
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Question reference: S5W-19206
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many carer's allowance supplement payments it has made in each week since 3 September 2018.
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Question reference: S5W-19403
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will instruct the DWP, under its agency agreement, to increase the carer's allowance earnings threshold to match the (a) national living wage at 16 hours per week or (b) real living wage at 16 hours per week while the agreement remains in place.
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Question reference: S5W-19402
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that recipients of carer's allowance may be prosecuted or fined where the DWP's Verify Earnings and Pensions system finds that the earnings threshold has been breached.
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Question reference: S5W-19461
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-19091 and S5W-19090 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 October 2018, what the individual cost is per payment of (a) carer's allowance delivered by the DWP and (b) carer's allowance supplement delivered by Social Security Scotland, and which of these is more cost-effective.
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Question reference: S5W-19460
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-19090 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 October 2018, what the expected cost of delivery is of the carer's allowance supplement in future years, and whether the cost for 2018-19 includes one-off costs of delivery in the first year of payments being made.
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Question reference: S5W-19506
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-15184 by Jeane Freeman on 22 March 2018, whether it has asked the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to take wind-chill into account for the payment of cold weather payments, and whether it has modelled how wind-chill could alter eligibility as part of its policy development.
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Question reference: S5W-19399
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what information it will receive from the DWP in cases where the earnings of a recipient of carer's allowance have breached the earnings threshold, and how Social Security Scotland will use this information for the purposes of recovering carer's allowance supplement.
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Question reference: S5W-19401
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Fairer for Carers campaign by Carers UK.
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Question reference: S5W-19502
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-01922 by Kevin Stewart on 14 March 2018, when direct engagement with the experience panels regarding cold-spell heating assistance began, and for what reason this research project is not listed in the Experience Panels Research Plan 2018-19.