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.
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Question reference: S5W-09871
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance and support it provides to ensure that pupils excluded from school continue to receive education.
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Question reference: S5W-09873
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many school exclusions were (a) permanent and (b) temporary in each of the last 10 years.
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Question reference: S5W-09874
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many pupils who were excluded from school on a (a) temporary and (b) permanent basis in each of the last 10 years failed to gain any qualifications.
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Question reference: S5W-09875
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that school exclusions can lead to the pupils experiencing future (a) mental health and (b) employment problems, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S5W-09774
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 29 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many building (a) warrants and (b) completion certificates have been issued by each local authority in each of the last 10 years.
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Question reference: S5W-09769
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 29 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how much each local authority has allocated to fund training courses for building control officers in each of the last 10 years.
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Question reference: S5W-09767
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 29 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many building control officers there have been in each local authority in each of the last 10 years, also broken down by the number of each type of building that have responsibility for.
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Question reference: S5W-09771
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 29 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many clerks of work there have been in each local authority in each of the last 10 years.
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Question reference: S5W-09687
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 29 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-24492 by Michael Matheson on 3 March 2015, in light of the comment provided in the response by the chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service that the "one off payment for prison officers is made in recognition of a specific set of circumstances unique to their frontline", for what reason similar payments were subsequently made in 2017 and are planned for 2018.
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Question reference: S5W-09686
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 29 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason a recent bonus payment of £2,000 has been made to prison officers in certain grades and not in others or to Scottish Prison Service civil servants, and what changes there were in the role of the officers who received the payment.
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