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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 MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S4W-26457

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Futures Trust's revised structure for design-build-finance-maintain projects halves the public sector share of the project from 40% to 20% and, if so, for what reason.

Question reference: S4W-26471

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 03 July 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 31 July 2015

To ask the Scottish Government how it will finance the new Clydebank Health Centre; when the project will (a) start and (b) be completed, and how much public sector capital will be involved.

Question reference: S4W-26211

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 June 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fiona McLeod on 7 July 2015

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-25981 by Fiona McLeod on 19 June 2015, which other local authorities have negotiated payments.

Question reference: S4W-25961

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2015
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 2 July 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what consultations it has undertaken since 2011; how many responses it received for each consultation, and when it published those responses.

Question reference: S4W-25978

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 05 June 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fiona McLeod on 19 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the comment by the Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs on 30 April 2014 that "the Government is still committed to scoping out a possible reparation scheme" for survivors of historical child abuse (Official Report, c.30374), what progress has been made with putting this in place.

The Scottish Government committed to scoping a survivor support service in its response to the Scottish Human Rights InterAction on 27 October 2014. The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning recently announced funding of £13.5 million over the next five years to develop this service. Survivors continue to be at the centre of our development of this service which we aim to have in place by October 2015.

Question reference: S4W-25981

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 05 June 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fiona McLeod on 19 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on 28 May 2015 (Official Report, c.46), which local authorities have made payments to survivors of historical child abuse on an ex gratia basis.

Question reference: S4W-25979

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 05 June 2015
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 19 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will make interim payments to survivors of historical child abuse, similar to the system introduced in the Republic of Ireland and, if so, whether it will involve survivors in the discussion of how these should operate.

Question reference: S4W-25980

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 05 June 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fiona McLeod on 19 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of the practice in other jurisdictions in relation to interim payments to survivors of historical child abuse.

Question reference: S4W-25953

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-24876 by John Swinney on 23 March 2015, on what date in June 2015 will it report on any underspend arising from the 2014-15 budget.

Question reference: S4W-25962

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-25728 by John Swinney on 3 June 2015 and given that transactions may be seasonal, what the monthly breakdown is for the forecast revenue for the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax.