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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: S4W-24977

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 25 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will give public transport authorities the power to compel public transport operators to participate in multi-operator ticketing schemes.

Sections 28-32 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 enable local transport authorities to specify what ticketing arrangements should be available for their areas and to seek to make these available on a voluntary basis.

If they cannot achieve satisfactory arrangements voluntarily, then local transport authorities can, following consultation, impose a duty on operators to implement a ticketing scheme, which can then be enforced by the Traffic Commissioner.

Question reference: S4O-04173

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S4O-04137

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 March 2015

To ask the Scottish Government how many non-teaching staff there are in schools and how this compares with 2013-14.

Question reference: S4O-03984

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 February 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to establish a future jobs fund for Scotland.

Question reference: S4O-03958

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fiona McLeod on 28 January 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to implement the recommendations of Jackie Brock's report on safeguarding vulnerable children.

In November 2014 when the Brock report was published the then Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning acted decisively accepting its recommendations in full. The report is one strand of a wider improvement programme to ensure Scotland’s approach to safeguarding children and young people is as robust as possible. We are already taking forward key recommendations in the report. For example, the first cross-sector National Strategic Leadership Summit on Child Wellbeing will take place in February 2015.

Question reference: S4F-02558

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 26 January 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 January 2015

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to reports that science lessons in schools are being underfunded by £8 million per year.

Question reference: S4O-03893

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 January 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 January 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers staffing levels in NHS Lanarkshire satisfactory.

Question reference: S4F-02402

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 November 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 November 2014

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government is doing to make roads safer for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

Question reference: S4F-02240

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 August 2014

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to First ScotRail being fined more than £2 million since 2011 for running too few coaches in a practice known as “short-forming”.

Question reference: S4W-22092

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 11 July 2014
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 August 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been detained under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 in each year since 2007, also broken down by the number detained in (a) mental health, (b) NHS and (c) Scottish Prison Service facilities.