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: S6W-20385
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government which schools are currently required to accommodate pupils in temporary modular buildings, broken down by local authority area; for how long such temporary accommodation will be required, and what remedial action it is taking to reduce the requirement for temporary modular buildings in schools.
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Question reference: S6W-20384
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, what data it holds on the number of schools that are over-capacity, such that parents are unable to send siblings to the same school; in which local authorities any such schools are situated, and what action it is taking to either expand capacity or find solutions.
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Question reference: S6W-20622
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 August 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 30 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it anticipates it will permit the creation of Licensed Legal Services Providers under the Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 before the end of 2023, and what it is waiting for before permitting such creation to begin.
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Question reference: S6W-20229
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 23 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what data it holds on how many newly qualified teachers (NQTs) were not offered permanent employment from August 2023, in each local authority, in order to create space for a probationary teacher.
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Question reference: S6W-20228
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many probationary teachers were requested by each of the 32 local authorities to commence their probationary year in August 2023, and how many were allocated to each local authority.
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Question reference: S6W-20227
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many newly qualified teachers (NQTs) are employed in Scottish state schools, as at June 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-20230
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it encourages teachers in training to consider undertaking their probationary year outside of their "home" local authority, including through marketing or presentations, and, specifically, how it seeks to encourage probationary teachers to carry out their probationary year in areas such as the north east.
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Question reference: S6W-20226
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 21 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many individuals attained newly qualified teacher (NQT) status in summer 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-20225
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 21 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on what role it and/or its agencies should play in matching newly qualified teachers (NQTs), who have not been offered a teaching post in their "home" local authority, with local authorities that have a shortage of teachers, such as those in the north east.
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Question reference: S6W-20068
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 16 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many pupils were recorded as (a) persistently and (b) severely absent in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in the last five years, broken down by year and local authority area.
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