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: S4W-14714
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 15 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14615 by John Swinney on 2 May 2013, for what reason there is an “emerging 2012-13 underspend to the college sector” and what correspondence the Cabinet Secretary for (a) Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth and (b) Education and Lifelong Learning has had with the Scottish Funding Council regarding this.
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Question reference: S4W-14717
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 15 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14615 by John Swinney on 2 May 2013, on what it will spend the “accumulated police reserves" and what discussions it has had with Police Scotland regarding their allocation.
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Question reference: S4W-14712
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 15 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14615 by John Swinney on 2 May 2013, on what it will spend the £12 million reduction in the level of planned switch between the resource and capital budgets in the housing portfolio.
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Question reference: S4W-14713
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 15 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14615 by John Swinney on 2 May 2013, whether the £10 million additional funding for the further education sector that it announced on 6 February 2013 (Official Report c. 16478) will no longer be spent in that area and, if so, where this will now be allocated.
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Question reference: S4O-02098
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 May 2013
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how it supports bus services.
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Question reference: S4F-01345
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2013
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 May 2013
To ask the First Minister what discussions the Scottish Government has had with the European Commission regarding an opt-out from pensions regulations should Scotland become independent.
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Question reference: S4W-13924
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 March 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 April 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how the Deputy First Minister’s reported assertion that welfare spending in Scotland will be reduced by £4.5 billion was calculated.
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Question reference: S4W-13569
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 28 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to extend the Employer Recruitment Incentive for Targeted Young People to include (a) 20 to 24-year-olds and (b) people with learning difficulties.
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Question reference: S4W-13567
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 28 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many (a) premature deaths and (b) suicides there have been among (i) people with learning difficulties and (ii) care leavers in each year since 2007.
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