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
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Question reference: S5W-33947
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 18 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve the promotion of the Fair Start Scotland programme, in light of its 2020 evaluation report, which found that, of a social security experience panel that had a membership made up of 83% disabled people, 74% said that they had not heard of it.
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Question reference: S5W-33944
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 18 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason participants in the Fair Start Scotland programme have to work 16 hours or more for at least 13 consecutive weeks to be considered as having achieved a successful short-job outcome, and what research was conducted to conclude that a 16 hours per week minimum was fair to disabled people who might not be able to physically or mentally be in a position to meet this target.
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Question reference: S5W-33946
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 18 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to figures suggesting that 51% of the people who joined the Fair Start Scotland Scheme in Year 2 left it early.
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Question reference: S5W-33948
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 18 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to figures suggesting that the number of disabled people joining the Fair Start Scotland programme has been declining annually, from 55% participation in Year 1 to 27% in Year 3.
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Question reference: S5W-33945
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 18 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to figures suggesting that, in the first two years of the Fair Start Scotland programme, only 6,621 of the 34,785 people who were referred to it started in employment.
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Question reference: S5W-33739
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to ensure that face-to-face appointments with clinicians are restarted as a priority for people with complex needs, many of whom have issues with communication, which means that they are unable to access help by telephone or online, and who may also not have had a face-to-face appointment since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S5W-33663
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what advice it has given to (a) procurator fiscals, (b) GPs, (c) local authority burial or cremation departments and (d) registrars on extending their opening hours and availability over the Christmas and New Year period to ensure that funeral directors can continue to arrange and conduct funerals during the pandemic without the bereaved facing delays.
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Question reference: S5W-33670
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many women have accessed abortion services provided by (a) the NHS and (b) independent providers since the changes to procedures on 31 March 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-33669
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many women have received a "Pills by Post" abortion kit from British Pregnancy Advisory Service providers since the changes to abortion procedures on 31 March 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-33667
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what measures are in place to ensure that women terminating a pregnancy at home in rural locations can access timely care in the event that they haemorrhage.