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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

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: S4W-00628

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 22 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children use only British Sign Language in school.

Question reference: S4O-00111

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that NHS services are best provided locally.

Question reference: S4W-00639

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its frontline employees are able to communicate in British Sign Language.

Question reference: S4W-00638

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of qualification in British Sign Language has been attained by each of its employees conversant in the language.

Question reference: S4W-00637

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff hold qualifications in British Sign Language.

Question reference: S4W-00623

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 21 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it gives to local authorities to encourage residents to use public transport.

Local authorities receive capital funding through the local government settlement to spend according to their priorities. The Scottish Government encourages the use of public transport through initiatives such as Smarter Choices Smarter Places, through publishing guidance to encourage a partnership approach to develop and address improvements in bus services and through the concessionary travel scheme.

Question reference: S4W-00626

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 21 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what financial support it gives to local authorities to support park and ride facilities at train and bus stations.

The development of local park and ride facilities is a matter for local government to determine according to their priorities. However, the Scottish Government does provide some additional funding, as for the new or expanded sites developed by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport over the last year at Croy, Monkton, Harthill, Coatbridge and Kilbowie. Most recently the Scottish Government announced that £10 million is to be made available to Fife Council to deliver a 1,000 space park and ride facility at Halbeath.

Question reference: S4W-00624

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 21 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it gives to local transport authorities to encourage the use of public transport.

Question reference: S4W-00636

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff are able to communicate in British Sign Language.

Question reference: S4W-00635

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff are British Sign Language users.

As with other languages, the information relating to staff language or other qualifications, is not held centrally, nor do we hold centrally the information relating to any languages understood or spoken by staff.

Where a member of the public or job applicant required access to British Sign Language interpreter, as a reasonable adjustment to access a service, we would arrange for that to be provided in the same manner as we would for any other reasonable adjustment or interpretation requirement.