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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: S5O-01559

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 December 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what support it is giving to the campaign, 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.

Question reference: S5O-01482

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2017
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 16 November 2017

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the progress that it is making with its work in resettling refugees and asylum seekers.

Scotland continues to welcome asylum seekers, who arrive in Glasgow under the Home Office’s asylum dispersal programme, and Scottish local authorities have now received over 1,900 refugees under the Syrian Resettlement Programme.

We are working with our partners, including COSLA and the Scottish Refugee Council, to develop the next New Scots refugee integration strategy for publication in early 2018. Over 2,000 people participated in engagement during the summer to inform the strategy, including over 700 refugees and asylum seekers.

Question reference: S5O-01330

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 4 October 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what efforts it is making to expand local sports initiatives.

The Scottish Government is committed to increasing rates of physical activity and wants to see a Scotland where more people are more active more of the time.

There are now more and better opportunities for everyone to participate in sport and physical activity right across Scotland. There are now 179 community sport hubs up and running and sportscotland, our national agency for sport, is on course to reach the target of 200 hubs by 2020. We are taking action to drive change for women and girls in sport through our first ever Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week, and creating a Women and Girls in Sport Advisory Board.

A good example of a local initiative being expanded is The Daily Mile. Created in Stirling, the Scottish Government is encouraging people of all ages to walk, jog or run a mile and that Scotland becomes the first Daily Mile Nation.

Question reference: S5O-01294

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 September 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how it will support the respectme Anti-Bullying Week in November 2017 to help promote respect for LBGTI people in schools.

Question reference: S5O-01208

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 September 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how the youth employment rate in Scotland compares to the UK as a whole and the rest of the EU.

Question reference: S5T-00605

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 June 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 June 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it undertakes with Scotland’s Muslim community, and whether it will take steps to ensure the safety of mosques in the wake of the latest attack in London.

Question reference: S5F-01394

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 June 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 June 2017

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government is doing to support LGBT rights.

Question reference: S5W-08830

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 2 May 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to ensure that local authorities meet their moral and legal obligations in settling equal pay claims, and what discussions it has had with Glasgow City Council regarding this.

Local authorities as employers are responsible for dealing with equal pay claims and Ministers have no legal powers to intervene. However the Scottish Government has consistently made it clear that any delays by local authorities in settling outstanding equal pay claims are unacceptable, and has called on local authorities to deal with outstanding claims as quickly as possible.

I wrote to all Scottish local authorities in October last year reiterating the Scottish Government's concerns about delays in settling equal pay claims and asking for information about the number of outstanding claims. The reply from Glasgow City Council said that it did not have any claims that had been determined in favour of the claimants but not yet settled. The Council also advised that over 9,000 claims were on hold pending a decision by the Court of Session in an appeal against decisions in favour of the Council by the Employment Tribunal that had been upheld by the Employment Appeals Tribunal. I understand that this Court of Session decision is still awaited.

Question reference: S5O-00896

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 26 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the Policing 2026 strategy.

A public consultation on Policing 2026 was launched by Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority on 27 February 2017. I understand there has been strong engagement to date, with over 1,050 responses submitted. This sits alongside an extensive programme of public and stakeholder engagement, with the Authority and Police Scotland reaching out to communities across Scotland. Over the course of this week that engagement activity will include meetings with the community group Uniting Nations in Scotland and the Scottish Alliance against Prejudice and Hate Crime, supporting Police Scotland in ensuring that Policing 2026 helps to deliver a fairer and more inclusive society.

The final deadline for responses to the consultation is 8 May although a three week extension has been offered to local councils to accommodate the upcoming local government elections. We encourage everyone with an interest to have their say on the content of Policing 2026, both through the engagement activities which are planned over the remaining weeks of the consultation and through the submission of a formal written response.

I have committed to making a statement to Parliament setting out the Government’s position on the Strategy at the end of the consultation.

Question reference: S5W-08701

Asked by: James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government which (a) primary and (b) secondary schools are receiving support through the Scottish Attainment Challenge, broken down by the amount awarded.

The Scottish Attainment Challenge commits £750 million over the course of this parliament to close the poverty related attainment gap. A table setting out the primary and secondary schools that received support through the Scottish Attainment Challenge in 2016-17 has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre - BIB reference number 58676.

The process to allocate the £170 million committed in 2017-18 is underway. This includes £120 million Pupil Equity Funding. The school level allocations of Pupil Equity Funding are available on the Scottish Government website at http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Education/Schools/Raisingeducationalattainment/pupilequityfund/Schoolallocations.