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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 21 October 2025
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Question reference: S6W-41000

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 31 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to ensure that apprenticeship funding reaches colleges more directly, in light of the recent report by Audit Scotland, Scotland’s Colleges 2025, which found that only 40% of Scottish Government funding reaches some colleges that deliver training.

Question reference: S6W-41007

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 31 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that capital maintenance funding allocations for the college sector are sufficient to cover essential repairs, in light of the finding in the recent report by Audit Scotland, Scotland’s Colleges 2025, that current funding is inadequate.

Question reference: S6W-41004

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 31 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on Audit Scotland’s recommendation in its recent report, Scotland’s Colleges 2025, that the Tripartite Alignment Group should set out income stream diversification plans for colleges within six months.

Question reference: S6W-40999

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 31 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recent report by Audit Scotland, Scotland’s Colleges 2025, which found that over 8,000 requests by learning providers for apprentice places in 2024-25 were not funded, what analysis it has undertaken of this unmet demand.

Question reference: S6W-40995

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 31 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recent report by Audit Scotland, Scotland’s Colleges 2025, what action it is taking to ensure that the Scottish Funding Council has the capacity to meet any future increase in liquidity support requests from colleges.

 

Question reference: S6W-41003

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 31 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recent report by Audit Scotland, Scotland’s Colleges 2025, which recommends that the funding model for colleges should better reflect equity and demand for courses, whether it will review the funding model.

Question reference: S6W-41005

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 31 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the reasons for the withdrawal of £26 million of transition funding in 2023, as noted in the recent report by Audit Scotland, Scotland’s Colleges 2025.

Question reference: S6W-41002

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 31 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recent report by Audit Scotland, Scotland’s Colleges 2025, which noted that colleges supported fewer students from deprived backgrounds to access university in 2022-23, what action it will take to address the decline in the number of students from the most deprived backgrounds progressing from college to university.

Question reference: S6W-41008

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 31 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reverse the reported 12.4% decrease in college enrolments in 2023-24 compared with 2022-23, as highlighted by Audit Scotland in its recent report, Scotland’s Colleges 2025.

Question reference: S6W-40997

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 31 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the findings on the college sector workforce in the recent report by Audit Scotland, Scotland’s Colleges 2025, how many teaching and support staff left Scotland’s colleges through (a) voluntary and (b) compulsory severance in 2023-24.