Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for 成人快手 to get factual and statistical information.
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To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the evidence indicating that using pupil equity funding for police officers in schools is an effective measure at closing the poverty related attainment gap.
To ask the Scottish Government what Children’s Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessments have been carried out regarding contracts with Police Scotland for police officers in schools, which involve the use of pupil equity funding.
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with those children and parents who benefit most from pupil equity funding to obtain their views on the decision to have police officers based in schools through the allocation of pupil equity funding, and what evidence it received from that engagement which indicates that having police officers based in schools is an effective tool in reducing the poverty related attainment gap.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12058 by John Swinney on 31 October 2017, which states that “any school plans for using pupil equity funding must be grounded in evidence of what is known to be effective at closing the poverty related attainment gap”, what evidence it holds that police officers on school campuses are effective in closing the poverty related attainment gap.
To ask the Scottish Government how many P1 children have taken (a) one of or (b) both parts of the Scottish National Standardised Assessments since 20 September 2018, broken down by (i) school year and (ii) local authority.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Police Scotland regarding police officers being stationed in schools through the use of pupil equity funding.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people did not respond to the 2011 census and, of those, how many people received a fine for not doing so.
To ask the Scottish Government what checks and monitoring processes it has in place to ensure that the money it provided to businesses through the Business Ventilation Fund has been used by those businesses for the reasons stated in their applications.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on advertising and promoting the Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme in total; how much it spent on this prior to the interim voucher scheme, worth up to £400 per voucher, being extended, and how much it has spent on this since the interim voucher scheme was extended.
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme, how many interim vouchers worth up to £400 had been granted by the date applications closed; what the total value of vouchers awarded in this part of the scheme is; how many vouchers worth up to £5,000 have been granted, and what the total value of vouchers awarded in this part of the scheme is.