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 what information it has on what urban and community regeneration projects are currently underway across Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what long-term funding and support is in place for charities post COVID-19 to ensure that they can continue providing support at a (a) local and (b) national level.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason local authorities have to meet the cost of the provision of childcare during the lockdown for families of keyworkers, in light of this cost normally being met by the families themselves, and whether this approach has been funded from money previously allocated for the provision of 1,140 hours of funded early learning and childcare.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason (a) the funding for nurseries during the lockdown is based on funded place income while the Transitional Support Fund is based on capacity, (b) it decided to use a variable benefit for nurseries to address overhead costs, in light of them being predominantly fixed in nature and (c) it provided a variable funding solution for nurseries biased towards funded places.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason local authorities are not rolling out 1,140 hours of funded early learning and childcare in 2020-21, in light of many private, voluntary and independent (PVI) settings reportedly having capacity to do this.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the importance it places on the early learning and childcare sector, for what reason nurseries are not eligible for (a) the Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund and (b) other grant funding to sustain them as businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5T-02313 by Jeane Freeman on 18 August 2020 (Official Report, c. 3), how many patients have been discharged from hospital to a care home following a positive test for COVID-19 in each month since January 2020, also broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many jobs in Scotland rely on Edinburgh Airport, including in the supply chain.
To ask the Scottish Government what practical and immediate support it is providing to the aviation sector to prevent job losses.
To ask the Scottish Government how it is using conditionality in grant awards to the aviation sector to drive up (a) environmental and (b) employment standards.