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 many (a) admissions to and (b) releases from each prison there have been in each year since 2011-12.
To ask the Scottish Government whether schools monitor mental health problems as a reason for absence.
To ask the Scottish Government how it supports the mental health of people with (a) ME, (b) MS and (c) chronic pain conditions.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to S5W-16859 by Jamie Hepburn on 7 June 2018, whether it will provide the information regarding the number of female apprenticeships that have been completed in each year since 2011-12 broken down by (a) the other parliamentary regions and (b) each local authority area.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-02125 by Jamie Hepburn on 23 May 2018, how many female STEM starts there have been in West Scotland in each year since 2014-15.
To ask the Scottish Government how many female apprenticeships have been completed in West Scotland in each year since 2011-12.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Police Scotland staff comments in the report, Evaluation of Police and Fire Reform: Year 3, that “we were forced in the short term to make decisions about saving money that weren't always particularly intuitive in support of improving service”.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase the number of female STEM apprentices in West Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what the average cost per place is to (a) public and (b) private childcare providers of offering 600 hours of free childcare each year, and what the impact on this would be of increasing the level to 1,140 hours.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to implement each of the recommendations regarding simplifying the funding of childcare for (a) parents and (b) providers that were set out in Meeting Scotland's Childcare Challenge: The Report of the Commission for Childcare Reform.