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
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Question reference: S5W-35006
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 12 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-34692 by Mairi Gougeon on 2 February 2021, on what date routine testing for COVID-19 took effect for all hospital admissions to (a) emergency departments, (b) acute assessment units, (c) maternity units and (d) emergency mental health units.
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Question reference: S5W-34375
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 9 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of what benefit communal worship during the COVID-19 pandemic can offer to older and isolated people, and what impact the closure of places of worship under the most recent restrictions will have on people from these groups who had adopted safe and socially-distanced worship to help mitigate the negative impacts of the previous lockdown.
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Question reference: S5W-34370
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 9 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether places of worship will be a priority for reopening at the end of the current COVID-19 lockdown period.
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Question reference: S5W-34372
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 9 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its position on places of worship under the current COVID-19 situation differs from that of the UK Government, and what its response is to reported concerns that, as a result of this, people in Carlisle can attend communal worship but people in Gretna cannot.
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Question reference: S5W-34387
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 9 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions have taken place with the Bishops' Conference of Scotland regarding the closure of places of worship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S5W-34371
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 9 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the evidence it has received regarding COVID-19 transmission rates in places of worship, and for what reason it considers this transmission rate to be high enough for these venues to be closed under the current restrictions.
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Question reference: S5W-34761
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 8 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what role Modern Apprenticeships will play in the longer-term sustainability of the food and drink sector.
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Question reference: S5W-34763
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 8 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) job vacancies and (b) places in (i) education and (ii) training it anticipates will be created in the food and drink sector for young people in 2021.
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Question reference: S5W-34760
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 8 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what specific conditions and measures are contained within the £250,000 food and drink sector support fund that it has supported to protect Modern Apprenticeships and youth employment.
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Question reference: S5W-34758
- Asked by: Elaine Smith, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 January 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 5 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether there has been a decline in the number of Modern Apprenticeship places in the last nine months, and, if so, (a) by how much and (b) what steps it is taking to address this.