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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.

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: S4W-19887

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 21 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 7 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of people receiving grants from the Scottish Welfare Fund was referred to other agencies for assistance.

Question reference: S4W-19889

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 21 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 7 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many people receiving grants from the Scottish Welfare Fund are repeat applicants.

Between 1 April 2013 and 30 September 2013, a total of 35,590 households received funds from the Scottish Welfare Fund (SWF). These 35,590 households made a total of 51,662 applications to the SWF. Of the 35,590 households, 10,514 households (30%) made repeat applications.

Of the 10,514 households making repeat applications, 5,010 (48%) had no applications rejected and 4,389 (42%) had only a single application rejected.

Statistics on the SWF are available at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Social-Welfare/swf

Question reference: S4W-19888

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 21 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 7 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of people that had a grant application for the Scottish Welfare Fund rejected was referred to other agencies for assistance.

Question reference: S4W-19885

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 21 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 7 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will carry out an evaluation of the Scottish Welfare Fund and, if so, whether it will be published.

Question reference: S4W-19883

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 21 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 7 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the first supplementary to question S4O-02918 by Margaret Burgess on 20 February 2014 (Official Report, c. 27950), what the anticipated underspend is in the Scottish Welfare Fund.

Question reference: S4W-19873

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason there has been a delay in the publication of its updated race equality statement and what the expected publication date is.

Question reference: S4W-19874

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will list each of the (a) outcomes achieved and (b) action plans developed as a result of the Scottish Government Race Equality Statement.

Question reference: S4W-19876

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government who it has consulted regarding the development of its updated race equality statement.

Question reference: S4O-03012

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 March 2014
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what assistance is available for homeowners and council tenants when structural defects are identified in their homes.

Question reference: S4W-19877

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government how many people from ethnic minority backgrounds serve on each public body and what percentage of all public appointments this represents.

We cannot provide figures for individual public bodies as this information is sensitive personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Schedule 1 to the Data Protection Act 1998 as, due to the small numbers of people on each public body, it may be possible to identify individuals.

For those ministerial appointments regulated by the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland 2% of current board members are from a minority ethnic background, rising to 2.2% when you remove those who chose not to record this diversity strand.

The Scottish Government is committed to improving the diversity of Scotland’s public boards. For those ministerial appointments regulated by the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland in 2012-13, 4.1% of applicants came from a minority ethnic background, with 2.9% being appointed.

Source:

Baseline diversity exercise of all regulated boards carried out by Scottish Government Public Appointments Centre of Expertise in April 2013.

Public Appointments in Scotland 2012-13 – Regulated Ministerial Appointments