Chamber and committees

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.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Filter your results Hide all filters

Displaying 2295 questions Show Answers

Order by |

Question reference: S5W-21554

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 1 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what evaluation it has made of the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s funding for the programme, Making Advice Work.

Question reference: S5W-21558

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 1 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it is reducing funding for the Scottish Legal Aid Board programme, Making Advice Work.

The Scottish Government continues to provide £2.7 million to fund 27 advice projects as part of the Scottish Legal Aid Board programme. Nonetheless, in the face of tightening budgets resulting from the UK Government’s continuing austerity programme, we must target our funding to ensure it goes where it is most needed. We have therefore had to take the difficult decision not to continue funding of some of the Scottish Legal Aid Board projects which overlapped other funding from Scottish, UK and local governments. We will be working with affected projects in the coming weeks to offer support for the transition away from Scottish Government funding.

Question reference: S5W-21561

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 1 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government where any funds that it has received from the Financial Conduct Authority debt advice levy will be allocated in 2019-20, broken down by project or organisation.

Question reference: S5W-21560

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 1 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it receives a share of the Financial Conduct Authority debt advice levy, and, if so, how much this has been in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S5W-21557

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 1 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much additional income each Citizens Advice Scotland bureau has brought in as a result of the funding for the Scottish Legal Aid Board programme, Making Advice Work.

Question reference: S5W-21556

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 1 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much income each Citizens Advice Scotland bureau has generated as a result of the funding for the Scottish Legal Aid Board programme, Making Advice Work.

Question reference: S5W-21553

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 28 February 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding the Scottish Legal Aid Board has received in each of the last five years.

This information is in the public domain and can be found on the Scottish
Government’s website within the Budget Bill documents covering the last five
years. This information can also be found on the Scottish Legal Board’s
website in the published Annual Accounts covering the last five years. Links
to these websites and documents are attached.

Scottish Budget 2019-20
https://www.gov.scot/budget/

Scottish Budget – Archive https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback//
archive/20170105064207/https://www.gov.scot/Topics/Government
/Finance/18127/Documents

Scottish Legal Board – website – Published Annual Accounts
https://www.slab.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/annual-report/ .

Question reference: S5W-21744

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 February 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time is to see an audiologist for a hearing aid fitting, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S5O-02938

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 February 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the progress being made in addressing the reported parking problems at St John's Hospital.

As I set out in the chamber on 7 February, in response to Mr Findlay’s previous question on this matter, NHS Lothian has taken steps to manage the availability of spaces and to provide alternatives to on-site parking, along with alternative forms of transport.

The Board remains committed to ongoing, constructive engagement with patients, staff, visitors and neighbours to understand and address parking-related issues. This engagement, along with other measures undertaken by the Board to alleviate parking-related issues, is ongoing and will continue to be ongoing.

Question reference: S5W-21706

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 February 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will list the (a) owner and (b) registered address of each wind farm.