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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03024 by Fergus Ewing on 4 October 2016, whether there is a difference between the speeds described in the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme and the actual speeds that customers can access.
To ask the Scottish Government how many secondary schools are not receiving Scottish Attainment Challenge funding.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has not published teacher vacancy statistics since 2010.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to make its Relationships, Sexual Health, and Parenthood education guidance a mandatory component of the curriculum.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03024 by Fergus Ewing on 4 October 2016, which providers would have delivered the 21% superfast broadband coverage in Shetland without the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that the original target of the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme with BT was too low.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish teacher and head teacher vacancy statistics on a regular basis.
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to increasing incentives for trainee surgeons to take up placements in rural and remote hospitals.
To ask the Scottish Government how many times parents who refused the advice of their child's Named Person have been subject to legal proceedings, and under what circumstances.
To ask the Scottish Government who will chair the November 2016 meeting of the Crofting Commission board.