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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

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Question reference: S5O-01167

Asked by: Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 June 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to raise awareness among young carers of welfare support that they may be entitled to.

Question reference: S5O-01100

Asked by: Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 June 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many secondary school principal teachers and faculty heads there are.

Question reference: S5O-01063

Asked by: Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 May 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 June 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met Fife Council and what issues were discussed.

Question reference: S5O-00928

Asked by: Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 May 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting schools in Fife to close the attainment gap.

Question reference: S5O-00816

Asked by: Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to raise awareness of how people can claim benefits that they are entitled to, in light of reports that there could be over 500,000 individuals and families that are not doing so.

We recently launched the first phase of our benefits take up campaign aimed at ensuring that people receive the benefits and support to which they are entitled.

This involved working with Citizens Advice Scotland to provide information and signposting for people to check their entitlements.

The Scottish Government wants to help people to know what financial support is available that could make a difference to their lives. Claiming the benefits that people are entitled to will help maximise family incomes and can help reduce poverty levels.

Making sure people receive the financial help they are entitled to is one of the first steps towards putting dignity and respect at the heart of social security policy in Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-06972

Asked by: Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 February 2017
Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 16 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many households have received support in each year since 2007 from the energy efficiency measures that it has introduced.

Analysis of Scottish Government programmes is only available since 2009 and annual breakdowns are published on the Energy saving Trusts website here. Overall these figures demonstrate that, as of the end of March 2015, over 245,000 households have received energy efficiency measures through our schemes since 2009. Scottish Government schemes also typically interact and blend funding with UK schemes such as the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), the Community Energy Savings Programme (CESP) and the Carbon Emissions Reductions Target (CERT) and some households will receive assistance from more than one scheme . Taking these into account we estimate that, by the end of March 2015, just under 1 million Scottish Households have received support since 2009.

Question reference: S5O-00796

Asked by: Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met Transport Scotland.

Question reference: S5O-00720

Asked by: Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to close the attainment gap.

Question reference: S5W-06658

Asked by: Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 27 January 2017
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 8 February 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting the recruitment of nursery teachers in deprived areas.

We are committed to ensuring that by 2018 nurseries in the most deprived areas will benefit from an additional graduate – either a teacher with early years expertise or a graduate practitioner with the BA Childhood Practice award.

In order to support delivery of this commitment the Scottish Government will invest around £1 million in 2017-18 to fund an additional 126 additional teacher training places from August 2017. This will enable 100 additional teachers to be available for early learning and childcare settings by 2018.

We are currently working closely with local authorities to progress this commitment.

Question reference: S5O-00543

Asked by: Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 January 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when it will next meet Fife Council.