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: S6W-27996
- Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 17 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-27601 by Ivan McKee on 29 May 2024, how the fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4) is supporting housebuilding, and whether it considers this to have removed any bureaucratic delays from (a) developers and (b) housing organisations and associations.
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Question reference: S6W-27986
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6T-01995 by Jenny Gilruth on 21 May 2024, what additional resources it considers will be required to deliver the national parent panel.
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Question reference: S6W-27977
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the independent review of the National Parent Forum of Scotland (NPFS), and when it informed the NPFS of its response to it.
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Question reference: S6W-27978
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what was discussed at its meeting with the National Parent Forum of Scotland in the week commencing 20 May 2024.
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Question reference: S6W-27981
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how much it will cost to implement any changes pertaining to the defunding of the National Parent Forum of Scotland, including the creation of any new body.
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Question reference: S6W-27983
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish all of its communications with National Parent Forum of Scotland pertaining to its decision to defund the body.
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Question reference: S6W-27985
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how it will support the breadth of representative voices as part of any new body that is planned to replace the National Parent Forum of Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-27994
- Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 17 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-27601 by Ivan McKee on 29 May 2024, whether its (a) ministers and (b) officials have had any recent discussions with (i) Homes England, (ii) the UK Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, (iii) industry and (iv) developers regarding the establishment of a dedicated non-departmental public body for housebuilding in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-27980
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the first supplementary to question S6T-01995 by Jenny Gilruth on 21 May 2024, which elements of the work of the National Parent Forum of Scotland it considers duplicates the work of another organisation or forum.
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Question reference: S6W-27997
- Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 17 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-27601 by Ivan McKee on 29 May 2024, what the costs associated with establishing a new non-departmental public body, similar to Homes England, to do this work would be.
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