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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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Question reference: S4W-02054

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether section 37(3) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 applies in Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-01995

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is committed to providing allowances for kinship carers of looked-after children equivalent to those provided to foster carers.

Question reference: S4W-02007

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it will provide to Citizens Advice Scotland after September 2011 for the provision of support and advice to kinship carers.

Question reference: S4W-02004

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to make changes to the qualifying criteria for free school meals.

Question reference: S4W-01969

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive which office in which of its directorates is responsible for policy in relation to people with a hearing loss and which official has lead responsibility for rehabilitation services.

Question reference: S4W-01974

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what resources it has provided to enable lipreading teachers to be trained in 2011.

Question reference: S4W-01975

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what resources it has provided to ensure that lipreading classes are held in each area since 2006.

Lipreading classes in Scotland are funded in a variety of ways: sources include health boards, local authorities and the lottery. The Scottish Government provided very significant resources to health boards and local authorities in these years to meet the needs of their population. In addition the Scottish Government provided grant totalling £50,255 to the Scottish Course to Train Tutors of Lipreading over the three calendar years 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Question reference: S4W-01973

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 August 2011

Question reference: S4W-01971

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive which office in which of its directorates is responsible for policy in relation to lipreading and which official has lead responsibility.

Question reference: S4W-01800

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 17 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on local authorities providing school transport only as far as the three mile limit for secondary school pupils living over three miles from their school.

Local authorities have a duty under section 51 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 to make such arrangements as they consider necessary for the transport between home and school of pupils residing, and attending schools, in their area. In considering these arrangements, authorities are required to have regard to the safety of the pupil.

The statutory walking distance is two miles for children aged under eight and three miles for children aged eight or over. The statutory provisions on school transport prescribe neither distances beyond which authorities must, nor distances below which they must not, provide transport. It is, however, for authorities themselves to determine criteria for eligibility for free school transport.