Chamber and committees

Questions and answers

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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Filter your results Hide all filters

Displaying 926 questions Show Answers

Order by |

Question reference: S5W-11057

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 04 September 2017
Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 13 September 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made regarding the introduction of a pilot for a deposit guarantee scheme for nurseries.

Question reference: S5F-01530

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 September 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 September 2017

To ask the First Minister what progress the Scottish Government has made in the identification of combustible cladding on public buildings, in light of reports that it was found at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Question reference: S5T-00637

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 04 September 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 September 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many teacher vacancies there are.

Question reference: S5W-10601

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2017
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 August 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what childcare is being provided at social security experience panel meetings.

Question reference: S5W-10387

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 10 August 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many licensed airgun owners there are, also broken down by how many weapons they keep, and what information it has regarding the number of unlicensed owners and guns.

On 19 July 2017, a total of 16,595 air weapon owners had been licensed since the air weapons legislation took effect on 31 December 2016. Individuals are licensed rather than guns, therefore there is no record of the number of weapons kept by each licence holder.

Information is not available on the number of unlicensed owners and guns. No records of air weapon numbers were kept before the air weapons regime came into effect.

Question reference: S5W-10425

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 21 July 2017
Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 10 August 2017

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-04238 by Mark McDonald on 11 November 2016, when it will publish the Flexible Jobs Index for Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-10383

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 9 August 2017

To ask the Scottish Government, further to its publication, A Blueprint for 2020: Expansion of Early Learning and Childcare in Scotland, when the Skills Investment Plan will be published.

The Skills Investment Plan: Prospectus for Scotland's early learning and childcare sector was published on 23 March 2017. The Prospectus is available online at: http://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/media/43127/early-learning-and-childcare-sip-digital.pdf. The Skills Investment Plan is a live document and an updated version will be produced by the end of October 2017, for publication alongside our Quality Action Plan.

Question reference: S5W-10386

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 9 August 2017

To ask the Scottish Government, further to its publication, A Blueprint for 2020: Expansion of Early Learning and Childcare in Scotland, whether the commitment to training and introducing new workers will continue beyond 2017-18 and, if so, how many workers will be recruited and over what period.

We are committed to ensuring that an appropriately skilled workforce is in place to deliver the expanded entitlement to early learning and childcare. We will continue to build capacity in the workforce up to 2020 through a variety of pathways including apprenticeships and further and higher education courses to ensure that adequate training and education provision is in place to meet the demands of the expansion.

Question reference: S5W-10382

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 9 August 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) places, (b) applicants, (c) starts and (d) successful completions there have been for the Childhood Practice (BA) course in each year since 2007-08.

Question reference: S5W-10384

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 9 August 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many new childcare workers will be in place in each year to 2020 to meet the increased number of workers set out in its publication, A Blueprint for 2020: Expansion of Early Learning and Childcare in Scotland.

Local authorities are currently developing early learning and childcare expansion plans, which include anticipated workforce requirements each year, and which are due to be submitted to the Scottish Government by 29 September 2017. We are working with local authorities and other partners to profile the recruitment of new entrants to the workforce ahead of the expanded entitlement coming into effect in 2020.