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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.

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: S6W-13532

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 13 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has taken forward recommendations on Fair Work in relation to minimum standards for terms and conditions in social care.

Question reference: S6W-13506

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 13 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what work has been undertaken to update the formal conditions associated with continuous professional development opportunities for adult social care workers.

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) launched a new system for Continuous Professional Learning (CPL), in October 2020. The change allows for a more flexible approach to recording learning, doing so in a way which works best for registered workers and gives employers more of a role in reviewing registrants’ learning.

Through SSSC social services workers have access to free learning resources, interactive webinars that support CPL and career development and new information on nationally recognised learning resources endorsed by SSSC all of which will support CPL.

Question reference: S6W-13586

Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 13 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many transactions the Additional Dwelling Supplement has been applied to in (a) the 2022-23 financial year to date and (b) each of the previous four full financial years, also broken down by local authority area.

Revenue Scotland publishes monthly and annual data on transactions subject to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) Additional Dwelling Supplement (ADS). This data is available at: Statistics | Revenue Scotland .

The monthly data published by Revenue Scotland includes the number of transactions subject to the Additional Dwelling Supplement per month. Data up to and including November 2022 is currently available at: Monthly LBTT Statistics | Revenue Scotland . In total, 17,970 transactions were recorded for the period of April 2022 to November 2022.

Local authority level data is published on an annual basis, as part of Revenue Scotland’s Annual Summary of Trends in the Devolved Taxes. The report for 2020-21, which provides data for the period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2021, is available at: Annual Summary of Trends in the Devolved Taxes 2020-2021 | Revenue Scotland . The report for 2021-2022 is due to be published in early 2023.

Question reference: S6W-13631

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 13 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how it supports young people who are school non-attenders or not in mainstream education to have resources similar to the national Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) resources.

Local authorities are responsible for the education of all pupils who are registered within their school rolls.

It is for teachers, schools and local authorities to determine how best to deliver learning and teaching on any topic and subject, in line with Curriculum for Excellence. We expect teachers to use their professional judgement, experience and understanding of their pupils to respond sensitively to complex and challenging issues.

The national relationships, sexual health and parenthood (RSHP) resources are part of a wider package of resources available to all schools and teachers to support delivery of RSHP education. A summary of wider resources in use across Scotland is available on Education Scotland's National Improvement Hub at https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/a-summary-of-rshp-resources/ .

Question reference: S6W-13641

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 13 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many teachers have accessed the national Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) resources and used them as part of the school curriculum since their creation.

Question reference: S6W-13806

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6W-13805

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6W-13556

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 12 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to Creative Scotland’s reported warning that its use of National Lottery reserves is a time-limited solution to a £6.6 million reduction in Scottish Government funding for 2023-24 and that, if the Scottish Government Budget does not give any indication of funding for 2024-25, Creative Scotland will not be able to confirm funding levels for regularly funded organisations for 2024-25.

Question reference: S6W-13264

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 12 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what the median number of days a household spends in temporary accommodation is, broken down by household type.

Homelessness data, which includes information about temporary accommodation placements, is available for all local authorities from 2017-18. The following table shows the median total time in days spent in temporary accommodation for households with homelessness applications that closed in each year from 2017/18 by household type. The figures are based on homelessness applications with at least one associated temporary accommodation placement.

Median total time (days) spent in temporary accommodation, by household type: 2017-18 to 2021-22

Household type	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
All	116	117	116	129	121
Single Person	106	105	106	118	111
Single Parent	134	139	134	160	146
Couple	119	115	117	132	128
Couple with Children	192	194	188	270	211
Other	124	133	129	151	138
Other with Children	166	172	162	190	171

Source: HL1 and HL3 dataset as at 18/08/2022

Notes on tables:

Figures may be based on the total duration of multiple temporary accommodation placements taken up by a household. A complete set of temporary accommodation placement data is not available prior to 2017-18. Figures refer to households with a homeless application that closed in the given year that took up temporary accommodation.

Information on household type is derived from the information on household type as at the time of the original homelessness application, and therefore may not reflect the actual composition of the household whilst in temporary accommodation. "Other" includes households with 2 adults that are not a couple or households with more than 2 adults.

Question reference: S6W-13435

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 12 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government which suppliers (a) registered for and (b) attended the Single Building Assessment(s) for Fire Safety in Scotland remote suppliers event, which was held on 14 December 2022.