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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government what plans are in place to ensure that additional resources allocated to economic recovery go to those who need it most and are used to alleviate poverty, improve health outcomes and build stronger communities.
To ask the Scottish Government how many FTE jobs are created, on average, with each million pounds of its procurement and commissioning.
To ask the Scottish Government how much additional funding it is providing to local authorities to assist them with local economic recovery plans, and what specific support it has provided to (a) West Lothian, (b) Midlothian and (c) the City of Edinburgh Council.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reports of at least 14 deaths at Redmill Care Home.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it agreed to pay for additional care home places purchased by health and social care partnerships (HSCP) between March and June 2020; if so, how much it paid for these places, broken down by HSCP area; whether it is still paying for additional places; for how long it (a) has paid and (b) will continue to pay for them, and how the places will be funded in the longer term.
To ask the Scottish Government how much additional funding has been given to respiratory services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason redundancies have been announced among the Scottish Enterprise cleaning staff; how many people are being made redundant, and whether this action is in line with its fair work guidance.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-31461 by Jeane Freeman on 10 September 2020, whether it will provide the information that was requested regarding on what date the First Minister was made aware that patients were being transferred from hospitals to care homes without being tested for COVID-19.
To ask the Scottish Government whether Scottish Enterprise will rehire directly its cleaning staff whose contracts have been terminated by Sodexo because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the education attainment gap is reportedly continuing to grow.