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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.

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Question reference: S4W-19655

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what events have been organised by (a) its agencies and (b) non-departmental public bodies to (i) promote or (ii) explain Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland; what the cost was, and whether this was met by (A) Scottish Government spending on the referendum or (B) the budgets of the agencies and non-departmental public bodies.

Question reference: S4W-19654

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what role (a) its agencies and (b) non-departmental public bodies have had in (i) promoting or (ii) explaining Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland.

Question reference: S4T-00600

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 February 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 February 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the comments of the President of the European Commission that it would be “extremely difficult, if not impossible" for an independent Scotland to join the EU.

Question reference: S4O-02897

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 February 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to comments by the European Commissioner for Education that any attempt to treat Scottish and non-Scottish students differently could be regarded as "a covert form of discrimination on grounds of nationality".

Question reference: S4O-02824

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 January 2014

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its national litter strategy.

Question reference: S4O-02792

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 January 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 January 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the recent Financial Times survey on how a vote for independence would affect the Scottish economy and the rest of the UK in 2014.

Question reference: S4O-02756

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 January 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the EU regarding objective justification for charging UK students tuition fees but not students from other EU countries in the event of Scotland becoming independent.

Question reference: S4O-02739

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the costs of promoting the white paper on independence.

Question reference: S4O-02661

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 December 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the World Forum on Natural Capital that was held in Edinburgh recently.

Question reference: S4W-18114

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 19 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what section 16b grants it has awarded in 2013-14.

The following Section 16b grants were awarded to organisations for 2013-14.

Organisation Name	Amount
Action for ME	£5,000
Action on Depression	£40,000
Action on Pre-eclampsia	£9,200
Age Concern	£42,235
Alzheimer Scotland	£9,240
Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC)	£18,000
Art in Healthcare	£30,000
National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS)	£15,000
BASICS Scotland	£36,000
Befriending	£10,010
Bipolar Fellowship Scotland	£35,000
Bliss	£38,125
Bobath Scotland	£9,458
Bowel Cancer UK Scotland	£10,000
Breast Cancer Care	£15,000
Breastfeeding Network	£20,004
British Deaf Association	£35,000
British Fluoridation Society	£5,000
British Lung Foundation (BLF) Scotland	£15,000
British Red Cross - Skin Camouflage Project /chainging faces	£10,000
Brittle Bone Society	£14,000
Brook	£20,000
Care 4 Carers	£19,277
Care Confidential	£6,500
carr-gomm scotland	£39,820
Children’s Hospice Association (Scotland)	£24,664
Clydeside Action on Asbestos	£72,000
Comas	£27,042
Council for Music in Hospitals	£12,000
Crew 2000	£40,113
Cruse Bereavement Care	£30,000
Deaf Connections	£26,000
Deafblind Scotland	£32,000
Diabetes UK Scotland	£10,000
Downs Syndrome Scotland	£10,000
Drugs Action	£14,503
Eczema Outreach Scotland	£10,000
Epilepsy Scotland	£10,000
ERIC	£6,667
Faith in Older People	£20,950
Family Planning Association (FPA) Scotland	£10,000
Fast forward	£34,193
FPA	£21,900
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens	£10,000
Fertility Care Scotland	£20,000
Genetic Alliance UK	£5,012
Genetic Alliance UK	£11,012
Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome Help (HUSH)	£12,000
Haemophilia Society	£20,000
Hearts & Minds	£11,300
Indepen-dance	£12,000
Infertility Network Scotland	£11,700
Insight (RNIB Radio)	£15,675
Leuchie house	£11,020
LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing	£25,936
LGBT Youth Scotland	£19,000
Maggies Cancer Centres	£10,000
Medical Foundation Scotland	£35,000
Meningitis Trust	£35,100
Mindroom	£18,000
MRF - Meningitis Research Foundation	£13,000
National Aids Trust	£23,364
Open Secret	£26,000
Pain Association Scotland	£15,000
Pain Concern	£6,000
PAMIS	£9,969
Paths for All	£16,912
PBC Foundation (UK) [Primary Biliary Cirrhosis]	£10,000
People First Scotland	£35,000
Prostate Cancer	£7,000
REACH Community Health	£30,000
Re-solv - The Society for the Prevention of Volatile Substance Misuse (VSM)	£20,130
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation	£15,000
Saheliya	£15,488
Samaritans	£40,000
SAY Women	£20,000
Scottish Cot Death Trust	£40,000
Scottish Council on Deafness (SCoD)	£20,000
Scottish Drugs Forum	£31,416
Scottish Healthy Living Centre Alliance	£20,000
Scottish Healthy Living Centre Alliance (SHLCA)	£20,000
Scottish Huntingdon's Association	£5,000
Scottish Motor Neurone Disease	£10,000
Scottish Pre-school Play Association (SPPA)	£30,608
Scottish Spina Bifida Association	£10,000
Sense Scotland	£10,000
Sleep Scotland	£37,961
Streetwork UK	£15,000
The Memory Box Network	£15,000
The Mental Health Foundation	£40,000
The Notre Dame Centre	£26,000
Thistle Foundation	£17,257
Tommy's	£10,000
Tourette Scotland	£6,000
Trellis (Scottish Therapeutic Gardening Network)	£10,000
Trust Rugby International	£12,850
Universal Comedy	£25,000
Visibility	£10,000

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