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.
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To ask the Scottish Government how the University of Edinburgh’s new two-year postgraduate teacher education course will attract potential applicants into the teaching profession.
To ask the Scottish Government how the University of Edinburgh’s new two-year postgraduate teacher education course will improve standards in schools.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06893 by Maureeen Wattr on 24 February 2017, noting that this funding was listed in both the draft 2016-17 budget and the draft 2017-18 budget, whether the delivery of £150 million funding began in the financial year 2016-17 or will begin in 2017-18, and what the final financial year of the allocation of funds will be.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-07499 by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 March 2017, whether it will provide the information that was requested regarding whether it will publish the evidence that it has received to determine that each protection order should remain in place.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many construction workers from Scotland are working in Qatar, and whether it is aware of any workers from Scotland being killed or injured when building stadia for the 2022 World Cup in that country.
To ask the Scottish Government what work each of its (a) directorates and (b) agencies have commissioned from Professor Russell Griggs in each year since 2013, and what information it has regarding work commissioned by other public bodies.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the new GP contract will address the so-called inverse care law.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06766 by Keith Brown on 28 February 2017, whether it will provide the information that was requested regarding whether it, as an employer, will refuse to comply with all of the provisions of the Trade Union Act 2016.
To ask the Scottish Government which NHS boards have carried out look-back exercises regarding (a) transvaginal tape (TVT) and (b) tension-free vaginal tape obturator (TVTO) operations.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-07053 by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 February 2017, whether it will publish the evidence that it has received to determine that each protection order should remain in place, and what plans it has to revoke each order.