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-31382
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 1 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how the (a) number and (b) proportion of people in Scotland who receive social security benefits compares with (i) England, (ii) Wales and (iii) Northern Ireland.
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Question reference: S5W-31374
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 31 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many people are employed through Social Security Scotland, and how this compares with the target of 1,900 people set out in Audit Scotland’s report, Social Security: Implementing the Devolved Powers.
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Question reference: S5W-31380
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 31 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on older people's physical and mental health is mitigated against.
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Question reference: S5W-31369
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 31 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress with the transfer of powers to Social Security Scotland from the DWP.
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Question reference: S5W-31386
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 31 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will lay the regulations for Child Disability Payment.
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Question reference: S5W-31370
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with the DWP in the last 12 months regarding devolved social security powers.
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Question reference: S5O-04553
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the level of deficit recorded by the latest GERS figures.
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Question reference: S5W-31199
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 26 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making in meeting its child poverty reduction target, and whether it expects to achieve this in the timescale set out.
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Question reference: S5W-31200
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 26 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much it is allocating to reduce child poverty in 2020-21, and how this compares with each year since 2007-08.
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Question reference: S5W-31201
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 26 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the COVID-19 pandemic and any potential subsequent rise in unemployment is having on its measures to reduce child poverty.
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