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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 8 October 2025
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Question reference: S5O-03257

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will integrate the principle of non-regression into provisions on keeping pace with EU laws to ensure that no new measures inadvertently lead to a lowering of consumer and environmental standards.

Question reference: S5W-23069

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 15 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many Best Start Grant applications in the initial phase up to 28 February 2019 were from people with non-Scottish postcodes; what proportion of these were processed; for what reason they were processed, and how many staffing hours were spent carrying out this task.

Question reference: S5W-22915

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 14 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how much it will cost the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver welfare foods under agency arrangements in Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-22957

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 14 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many social security programme staff have recorded (a) short- and (b) long-term absences in the last year.

Question reference: S5W-22962

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many of its social security (a) programme, (b) directorate and (c) agency staff have previously been employed by the DWP.

Question reference: S5W-22946

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, if the bidder selected to run the Scottish social security system also provides social security advice, how it will ensure that the advocacy services for the system are (a) delivered, (b) quality assured and (c) audited separately from such advice.

Question reference: S5W-22949

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) private, (b) public and (c) third sector organisations have (i) responded to and (ii) requested information regarding the prior information notice for the advocacy service for the Scottish social security system.

Question reference: S5W-22948

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what lessons have been learned and information has been shared from the process to develop and introduce of advocacy services under Section 122 of the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 in the preparation of the advocacy service for the Scottish social security system prior information notice.

Question reference: S5W-22959

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what the £10 million budgeted in 2019-20 for social security capital expenditure is expected to cover.

Question reference: S5W-22950

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what the expected service delivery date is of the social security advocacy service, and whether the delivery will be aligned with the introduction of disability assistance for children and young people in summer 2020.