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.
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To ask the Scottish Government what support will be given to young people to apply for an updated Young Scot National Entitlement Card (NEC) in cases where they do not have access to a passport or driving licence due to affordability.
To ask the Scottish Government whether free bus travel for under-22s will be extended to include school buses for children attending education.
To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken to support young people who are (a) care-experienced and (b) estranged from parents, family or care givers, to apply for an updated Young Scot National Entitlement Card (NEC), in cases where they do not have access to the identification documents required.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05586 by Graeme Dey on 24 January 2022, whether it will provide a breakdown by workstream of Transport Scotland FTE staffing levels between 2016 and 2021.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the onshore infrastructure in north east Scotland to support the growing offshore wind sector, and what funding it has made available to date to facilitate any necessary upgrades.
To ask the Scottish Government how much civil service or legal time or resource has been allocated (a) since the May 2021 Scottish Parliament election and (b) for the remainder of 2022 on (i) the detailed prospectus making the case for Scottish independence, (ii) governmental proposals or papers designed to further this case and (iii) the consulting on or drafting of legislation designed to hold a referendum, expressed as (A) the number of FTE staff and (B) total staff hours, and broken down by (1) which of its departments the time or resource was allocated within and (2) the associated known or estimated cost of the time or resource.
To ask the Scottish Government (a) when and (b) how it will introduce legislation in relation to reforming gender recognition procedures.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of changes in work patterns and increased hybrid working impacting on commuting, whether it will consider, as part of ScotRail moving into public ownership, liaising with VisitScotland to discuss increasing tourism on the rail network by combining rail tickets with discounted entrance charges to participating national attractions.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05586 by Graeme Dey on 24 January 2022, for what reason the FTE staffing levels at Transport Scotland have risen from 375.7 in 2016 to 482 in 2021.
To ask the Scottish Government how many hours of purposeful activity prisoners had, on average, per week in each month between December 2020 and December 2021, broken down by each prison.