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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 ��˿�� 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: S5O-03579

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to encourage diversity in the workplace.

Question reference: S5O-03488

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 5 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to enable Scotland to make the most of 5G technology.

5G technology can help take our digital connectivity to the next level, and could add an estimated £17 billion to economic output by 2034 and create up to 160,000 new jobs.

That is why in our Programme for Government, we committed to establishing the Scotland 5G Centre. This partnership between Government, academia and industry will be a national platform for collaboration, innovation and knowledge sharing to ensure we capitalise on this emergent technology.

Our 5G Strategy for Scotland, launched by the First Minister on 26 August, outlines actions we will take to forge Scotland’s digital future.

Question reference: S5O-03330

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many accredited real Living Wage employers there are in Scotland.

Question reference: S5O-03307

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many families in North Lanarkshire have received support from the Best Start Grant Pregnancy and Baby Payment.

Question reference: S5O-03226

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S5O-03217

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 May 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government its position on the use of big data to tackle societal inequality.

Question reference: S5O-03101

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 3 April 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what role science and technology can play in the development of the rural economy.

Science and technology plays a vital role in our rural economy. That is why we invest £45 million every year through our world leading institutes to undertake research on farming, food, forestry, plants and the environment. Scottish Enterprise and Highlands & Islands Enterprise support young people across Scotland to pursue STEM skills and careers in the rural economy and also, facilities for new and existing rural businesses to use to help develop and adopt new technologies to increase their efficiency. As part of our work on climate change, an industry led Agricultural Technology Group was launched in 2018 to share, disseminate and encourage adoption of advances in agricultural science and technology.

Question reference: S5O-02990

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 March 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what response it has received from the UK Government to the simultaneous debates of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly that voted to reject the withdrawal agreement and a no deal Brexit.

Question reference: S5W-21729

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 27 February 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of school leavers has gone on to (a) initial and (b) follow-up positive destinations in each year since 2006-07.

The following table shows the proportion of school leavers who entered positive (a) initial and (b) follow up destinations each year from 2006-07 to the latest available. Figures for the proportion of school leavers entering positive follow-up destinations in 2017-18 are not yet available and will be published in June this year.

Proportion of school leavers in positive (a) initial and (b) follow-up destinations, 2006-07 to 2017-18

	(a) Initial destinations	(b) Follow-up destinations
2017-18	94.4	n-a
2016-17	93.7	92.9
2015-16	93.3	91.4
2014-15	93.0	92.0
2013-14	92.5	91.7
2012-13	91.7	90.4
2011-12	90.1	89.6
2010-11	89.0	87.2
2009-10	87.0	85.2
2008-09	85.6	85.1
2007-08	86.3	84.0
2006-07	86.7	87.0

Notes:

1. The initial destination figures in the table are derived from supplementary table L1.1 of the initial leavers publication: . The follow-up destination figures are derived from table L1.1 here: .

2. Positive destinations include higher education, further education, training, employment, voluntary work and, from April 2011, activity agreements.

3. A change was made to the methodology in 2009-10 meaning that figures prior to this are not directly comparable to those for 2009-10 onwards and care should be taken when comparing across this period. Further details are available in the associated publications.

Question reference: S5W-21474

Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2019
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Richard Lochhead on 7 February 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to publish the first annual report of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Training Strategy for Scotland.

The first annual report of the STEM Strategy will be published on the Scottish Government website today and is available here:

The report notes that much progress has been made in the first year with key developments in areas such as: promoting successful approaches to tackling inequality including gender stereotyping and bias in STEM ; the introduction of STEM Bursaries to encourage career changers into STEM Teaching; a new Young STEM leaders mentoring programme to inspire the next generation for STEM; and, college-led STEM hubs to strengthen collaboration between universities, science centres and employers.