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: S5W-02715
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 27 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the budget is for the Workplace Innovation Service, and how many businesses will receive assistance.
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Question reference: S5W-02712
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 26 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government by what date Skills Development Scotland will publish its regional (a) skills assessments and (b) outcome agreements.
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Question reference: S5W-02714
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 26 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish details of what assessment it has carried out of skills (a) shortages and (b) underuse.
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Question reference: S5O-00191
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what recent assessment it has made of the condition of college buildings.
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Question reference: S5W-02407
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 21 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many public contracts were placed with supported employment workplaces for disabled people through its procurement process and what their value was in each year since 2011.
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Question reference: S5W-02536
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 21 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the signatories to the Scottish Business Pledge and what components each business has signed up to.
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Question reference: S5W-02408
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 20 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it monitors the number and value of public contracts that it and other public bodies in Scotland award to supported employment workplaces for disabled people.
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Question reference: S5W-01894
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it will publish the full minute of the meeting between the First Minister and the German Government's Minister of State for Europe, which was held on 9 August 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-02081
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 7 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had with representatives of (a) Highland and Universal Land Limited, (b) Highland Global Transport Limited and (c) Gloag Investment Properties Limited; who was in attendance, and what was discussed, in each of the last two years.
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Question reference: S5O-00115
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will take action to prevent NHS Lanarkshire from closing trauma and inpatient orthopaedic services at Monklands Hospital.