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.
Filter your results Hide all filters
Displaying 1736 questions Show Answers
Question reference: S6W-23938
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 8 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many children are currently considered to be "missing from education" at schools in Scotland, broken down by (a) local authority area and (b) reason recorded for being missing.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-23979
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 8 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made towards establishing the Centre of Teaching Excellence (CTE), and whether it will provide an update on (a) in what fundamental respects the CTE will be different from Education Scotland, (b) what the core purpose of the CTE will be, and how its success will be measured, (c) against what outputs its performance will be measured, (d) what weekly interactions it anticipates the CTE will have with individual teachers and schools, (e) what it anticipates the cost will be of (i) consulting on, (ii) establishing, (iii) launching and (iv) the ongoing running of the CTE, (f) what role it anticipates the CTE will have regarding the development of the school curriculum and (g) whether the CTE will report to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-23633
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 21 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-22746 by Jenny Gilruth on 17 November 2023, whether it can provide details of the work that is going on "with local authorities and key stakeholders to better understand and map existing provision"; which agencies or who within the Scottish Government is conducting this mapping; when this mapping will be published, and how long it will take thereafter to develop a plan for breakfast provision.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-23635
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 20 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-22987 by Jenny Gilruth on 5 December 2023, in light of the information that "has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre under Bib. Number 64646" containing redacted figures, whether it will reconsider its decision to redact these figures to allow for meaningful scrutiny of the data.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-23586
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-03945 by Humza Yousaf on 19 December 2019, what the staff (a) recruitment, (b) retention and (c) absence rate has been at each prison and young offenders institution in the last 12 months.
Answer
Question reference: S6T-01702
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that Police Scotland is considering closing more than 40 police buildings.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-23239
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 8 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the Scottish National Party manifesto commitment to invest £50 million to create a Women's Business Centre, how much has been invested to date; what that investment has been spent on; what the defined (a) objectives were and (b) measurables are; how many women have been assisted "to develop their pioneering business idea"; where any such women and their businesses are located; whether it has achieved the aim of having more women in business, and, if so, how that has been measured.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-23585
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answer expected on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the monthly average sales income for fishermen has been in each of the last three years.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-22987
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-22541 by Jenny Gilruth on 14 November 2023, when it anticipates that the information will be available.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-23040
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 4 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-22201 by Jenny Gilruth on 14 November 2023, when it expects to report on whether it or local authorities will meet the cost to "update when necessary" the laptops, Chromebooks and tablets that are given to school children in Scotland, and at what cost, in light of reports that this work has been underway since at least February 2022.