Questions and answers

Question reference: S6W-12775

Asked by: Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 1 December 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when the proposed consultation on adding trade union nominees to the boards of college institutions will be published.

The consultation has been published today and is be available on the Scottish Government’s Consultation Hub, Citizen Space ( https://consult.gov.scot/college-policy/trade-union-nominees/ ). It builds on the work of The Good College Governance Task Group, which made a set of recommendations to improve college governance in Scotland. One of these recommendations was to add trade union nominees to the boards of college institutions and the consultation will seek views of a set of proposals to implement this. This work marks the beginning of a wider programme of improvements in governance across the tertiary education and skills sector. The closing date is‎ 27 January 2023.

Question reference: S6O-01650

Asked by: Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 December 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to build support for Scottish independence.

Question reference: S6O-01619

Asked by: Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support local food and drink producers to access public sector procurement contracts.

Question reference: S6O-01454

Asked by: Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to support armed forces and veterans’ families in Scotland during the cost of living crisis, in light of recent reports that almost 3,000 serving military personnel in the UK are reliant on Universal Credit.

Question reference: S6O-01411

Asked by: Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 29 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to legislate to freeze housing rents.

We plan to introduce legislation next week to provide for a rent freeze and moratorium on evictions. We intend to provide a freeze on rents across the social and private sectors until 31 March 2023, provided it remains necessary and proportionate to do so.

Rents will initially be capped at 0% until 31 March.

While the primary purpose of our emergency proposals is to protect tenants during this cost crisis, safeguards will be built in to ensure that the circumstances of landlords are appropriately reflected.

Question reference: S6W-09741

Asked by: Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 July 2022
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Clare Haughey on 11 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to address the findings of Professor Muir’s report on education reform in relation to the inspection of early learning and childcare services.

The Scottish Government welcomed Professor Muir’s recommendation in relation to the creation of a shared framework for the inspection of early learning and childcare (ELC) to be developed between the education inspectorate and the Care Inspectorate. We have today launched a consultation to seek the sector’s views on current inspection arrangements in ELC and school-age childcare and a proposal for a shared inspection framework. This can be accessed at the consultations page of the Scottish Government’s website until 28 October.

Question reference: S6O-01227

Asked by: Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how it is prioritising the national mission to tackle child poverty.

Question reference: S6W-07343

Asked by: Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the most recent level of an average household water bill in Scotland, and how this compares with (a) England and (b) Wales.

Question reference: S5W-17348

Asked by: Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 20 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government when it will lay for consultation the proposed draft regulations providing for the disclosure of information about persons who have controlling interests in land in a public register as required by Part 3 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016.

The Scottish Government today laid for consultation in the Scottish Parliament proposed draft regulations (SG/2018/103) and a proposed explanatory document (SG/2018/104) for a new Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land as required by Part 3 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016. It has also laid a draft partial Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment and a draft Privacy Impact Assessment of the draft regulations within the proposed explanatory document.

In addition the Government has published on its website a consultation document to support the consultation, which will run until 8 November 2018.

Question reference: S5W-17047

Asked by: Graeme Dey, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 13 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the benefits of migration to the Scottish economy and society.

Migration is crucial to the development of Scotland as an inclusive, fair, prosperous, innovative country. It is essential to our economic prospects and our demographic sustainability that Scotland continues to attract the level and nature of migration it needs.

Following the EU referendum we published a report summarising and evaluating the recent literature on the impacts of migrants and migration on Scotland’s economy, labour market, public services, communities and culture. In November last year we set out the evidence about the importance of migration to Scotland, in our submission to the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). We followed that earlier this year with a discussion paper on Scotland’s Population Growth and Migration Policy detailing the unique challenges facing Scotland’s population and the potential economic gains if migration was sustained. The paper also outlines how a tailored approach for Scotland, with new powers for the Scottish Parliament, could operate.

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