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-14939
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 12 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports in Third Force News on 20 February 2018, whether it has audited the ongoing viability of the contracts issued under its Fair Start programme.
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Question reference: S5W-14937
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 12 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports in Third Force News on 20 February 2018, what information it has on which subcontractors that were originally contracted to help deliver its Fair Start programme are no longer involved in it.
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Question reference: S5W-14566
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-14074 by Jeane Freeman on 8 February 2018, when it agreed with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that some payments of social security assistance will be made through the DWP Central Payments System.
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Question reference: S5W-14565
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-14074 by Jeane Freeman on 8 February 2018, which payments of social security assistance will be made through the Department for Work and Pensions Central Payments System.
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Question reference: S5O-01888
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when details of the fund to support parents of premature babies in hospitals will be announced.
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Question reference: S5W-14564
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-14074 by Jeane Freeman on 8 February 2018, when it will stop making payments of social security assistance through the Department for Work and Pensions Central Payments System.
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Question reference: S5W-14377
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13763 by Jeane Freeman on 22 January 2018, whether the provisions in the Universal Credit (Application, Advice and Assistance) Bill 2017-19 would apply in Scotland, in light of its powers under sections 29 and 30 of the Scotland Act 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-14364
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of comments by the Minister for Social Security in the Daily Record on 24 January 2018, whether the “once-for-Scotland” approach referred to would entail no face-to-face assessment for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), in the event that this is not required by the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of assessing for disability assistance.
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Question reference: S5W-14351
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-01753 by Jeane Freeman on 31 January 2018, which stated that it will "reduce the need for face to face assessments", whether this is consistent with the comments by the Minister for Social Security in the Daily Record on 24 January 2018 that "rather than have two people do two assessments, they could have all the information we have as their core assessment for ESA, with maybe some additional elements they need".
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Question reference: S5W-14350
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 27 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-01753 by Jeane Freeman on 31 January 2018, which stated that it will “reduce the need for face to face assessments” in respect of devolved disability assistance, and in light of comments by the Minister for Social Security in the Daily Record on 24 January 2018, whether it will publish a policy paper detailing the “once-for-Scotland” approach proposed.
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