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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-17584

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 5 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many people with learning disabilities have been enrolled at a college in each year since 2007-08.

The Scottish Funding Council produces statistics for students in colleges. The latest data is for the academic year 2011-12.

The disability categories used by SFC do not allow us to separately identify students with learning disabilities. The following table shows the percentage of enrolments for students with any recorded disability.

Percentage of enrolments in Scottish Colleges for students with a recorded disability: 2007-08 to 2011-12

	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12
Percentage of enrolments for students with any recorded disability	10.4%	11.0%	11.6%	12.3%	12.3%

Source: Scottish Funding Council (SFC).

Question reference: S4W-17749

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-17292 by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 October 2013, when data will be published regarding the number of households assisted by the Home Energy Efficiency Programmes for Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-17748

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 November 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-17291 by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 October 2013, what information is being collected now and what specific monitoring information is being proposed.

Scottish Government monitoring of ECO and of the general progress of projects will be on two levels:

(1) Local authorities will complete monthly reports on activity which will cover work completed in the previous months, works started on site and works committed but not yet started. This will include an analysis of ECO for committed and completed homes. The first return is for the month of October and will include all activity funded by the area based schemes this financial year and is due to be received from local authorities by November the 14th.

(2) Local authorities will on a quarterly basis provide details of the measures completed to homes which will be cross referenced to the data set Ofgem provide. This will provide a better understanding of how ECO is working in Scotland and how to develop future policy. The first quarterly return will be to the end of December 2013 and is due to be received from local authorities by the 24th of January 2014.

Question reference: S4W-18028

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S4W-17591

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether there is an independent review mechanism for the Scottish Welfare Fund.

Question reference: S4W-17594

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what average level of grant it anticipates for (a) community care and (b) crisis grants.

Question reference: S4W-17592

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the first and second review tiers are for applications to the Scottish Welfare Fund.

Question reference: S4W-17593

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has replicated the functions of the Social Security Commissioners.

Question reference: S4F-01642

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 October 2013

To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government will take to deal with the reported underrepresentation of women on the boards and senior management teams of public bodies.

Question reference: S4W-17582

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the supplementary to question S4F-01561 by Alex Salmond on 19 September 2013 (Official Report, c. 22684), what estimate it has made of how much (a) first and (b) second class stamps would cost if an independent Scotland renationalised the Royal Mail.

We will ensure that postal service provision meets the needs of the people of Scotland in terms of a fair price and quality of service. This could be supported by the regulation of stamp prices by an independent regulator. Currently the regulator only influences the prices of a second class stamp. We are concerned by comments from the chief executive of the Royal Mail, immediately following its privatisation, which implied that the price of stamps may increase.