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-02371
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 29 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many STEM subject (a) pupils aged 14 to 18 and (b) teachers there have been in each year since 2011, broken down by (i) gender and (ii) subject.
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Question reference: S5W-02775
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 28 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it will provide for the targeted marketing campaign to recruit additional Early Learning and Childcare workers referred to in the 2016-17 Programme for Government, when it will begin and what form it will take.
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Question reference: S5O-00193
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 28 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government when it will implement the recommendations arising from its consultation on the Apprenticeship Levy.
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Question reference: S5W-02742
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 28 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) three- and (b) four-year-olds are on waiting lists for access to early learning and childcare, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S5W-02747
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 28 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much it will provide in (a) real and (b) cash terms each year toward the pledge in the Programme for Government that "by 2018, nurseries in our most deprived areas will benefit from an additional qualified teacher or childcare graduate".
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Question reference: S5W-02767
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 26 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many additional qualified teachers or childcare graduates it expects to be in place in nurseries in the most deprived areas by 2018.
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Question reference: S5W-02740
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 26 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much it will provide in (a) real and (b) cash terms each year toward the provision of the additional 20,000 qualified early learning and childcare workers by 2020 referred to in the Programme for Government.
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Question reference: S5O-00180
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 22 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether all of its and its agencies’ employees receive at least the Scottish living wage.
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Question reference: S5W-02372
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 21 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many secondary school careers advisers there have been in each year since 2006, broken down by local authority area.