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 from what date it has advertised private sector jobs on the NHS jobs portal and who made the decision to introduce this practice.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on advertising private sector jobs on the NHS jobs portal.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14692 by Alex Neil on 21 May 2013, which NHS boards will print the National Confidential Alert Line number on June 2013 payslips.
To ask the Scottish Government whether funding is available to credit unions to assist them to (a) grow their services and (b) develop services to mitigate the impact of welfare reform.
To ask the Scottish Government whether funding is available for credit unions to develop schemes offering accounts to welfare recipients to enable them to receive benefits and pay bills from the account.
To ask the Scottish Government whether any colleges have written to staff recently regarding compulsory redundancies and, if so, which.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) teaching and (b) non-teaching staff have been employed in the college sector in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) teaching and (b) non-teaching staff it estimates will be employed in the college sector in 2013-14.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Franchising Advisory Panel that has been recently established by the UK Government will have an impact on passenger rail franchises put out to tender by Transport Scotland and, if so, what discussions it has had with UK Government (a) ministers and (b) officials regarding this.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to (a) end or (b) reduce the use of zero-hour contracts in the public sector.