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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 成人快手 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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 26 August 2025
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Question reference: S5W-29520

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 29 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has allocated to each local authority to pay grants from the Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund.

Question reference: S5W-29517

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 29 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many grants from the Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund in each local authority area have been paid out, also broken down by their total value.

Question reference: S5W-29518

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 29 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to widening the eligibility criteria for the Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund to include people who have claimed Universal Credit.

Question reference: S5W-29521

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 29 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government when it will close down the Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund to new applicants.

Question reference: S5W-29516

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 29 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many people in each local authority area it estimates are eligible for the Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund; how many applications there have been from each area, and how many (a) have been approved, (b) are in process, (c) have been withdrawn and (d) have been unsuccessful, broken down by the reason for rejection.

Question reference: S5W-29519

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 29 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it had with the UK Government regarding the potential interaction of grants made from the Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund and the Universal Credit taper rate.

Question reference: S5O-04434

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 June 2020
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how blended learning will take account of families with more than one child.

Question reference: S5W-29643

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what work it is doing to re-model its estimates of how many children the Scottish Child Payment will remove from poverty, and what the (a) coverage and (b) targeting will be of the payment.

Question reference: S5W-29487

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 8 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the British Association of Removers regarding its document, Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on moving home.

Question reference: S5W-29545

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many staff have been recruited to Social Security Scotland since the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020, and how this compares with the recruitment forecasts that had set before that date.