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: S5W-20275
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-19666 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 13 November 2018, whether it will explain in more detail the reasons for suppressing some of the monitoring data; how it assessed that publishing the data would present a risk of possible disclosure, and what the risk is of potential disclosure.
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Question reference: S5W-20332
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-19399 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 November 2018, what information it receives from the DWP in the event that someone, who was receiving carer's allowance and living in Scotland on the qualifying dates for carer’s allowance supplement for the purposes of paying the supplement, is subsequently found to have been overpaid, and how Social Security Scotland uses that information for the purposes of administering and recovering the carer's allowance supplement.
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Question reference: S5W-20331
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government further to the answer to question S5W-19399 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 November 2018, how many (a) payments of carer's allowance supplement have been recovered and (b) times the recovery process has been initiated.
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Question reference: S5W-20165
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-02679 by Jeane Freeman on 28 September 2016, how many families would currently benefit from extending eligibility for Winter Fuel Payments to families with children in receipt of the highest care component of the Disability Living Allowance.
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Question reference: S5W-20328
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the social return on investment of the Universal Credit Scottish choices scheme.
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Question reference: S5W-20329
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what review and assessment it has carried out of the effectiveness of the Universal Credit Scottish choices scheme.
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Question reference: S5W-20267
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 11 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-19085 and S5W-19086 by Jamie Hepburn on 24 October and 13 November 2018 respectively, in light of the report, Scotland’s Devolved Employment Services, not setting out this data, whether it will provide the information that was requested and confirm how (a) many performance-related fees have been paid to Fair Start Scotland providers based on the (i) 13- and (ii) 26-week employment milestones, and what the value of these fees is, and (b) much has been paid in service fees to Fair Start Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-20108
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government which (a) "go" and (b) "no go" gates the Social Security Programme Board is expected to give a formal view on in the year ahead; which it has given a formal view on, and what these views were.
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Question reference: S5W-20268
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many members of the Social Security Scotland (a) senior management team and (b) executive advisory body identify as black or minority ethnic (BME).
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Question reference: S5W-20164
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 4 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-19205 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 23 November 2018, how the enquiries and complaints were categorised, and how many enquiries and complaints were in each of these categories.
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