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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: S5W-21079

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 24 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20835 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 January 2019, whether any of the senior responsible officers have considered requests from other sources to release their respective reviews and, if so, what their response was.

Question reference: S5W-21081

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 24 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20835 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 January 2019, whether any of the senior responsible officers have stated that they would wish to be consulted before recipients of the review share all or parts of its contents with others, and, if so, for which reviews.

Question reference: S5W-21010

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 24 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20752 by Aileen Campbell on 15 January 2019, how it will calculate the verified financial gain per (a) individual, (b) household and (c) benefit, and over what period of time it will assume the gain is for.

Question reference: S5W-21007

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 24 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government further to the answer to question S5W-20745, by Aileen Campbell on 15 January 2019, how it defines (a) a successful and (b) an unsuccessful evaluation.

The target set for the service is to deliver a Financial Health Check to 15,000 households in Scotland per annum. We will monitor the quarterly update reports provided by Citizens Advice Scotland to gauge whether the service is successful. Our decision will be based on the data submitted for the following agreed key performance indicators:

Number of clients accessing the service

Profile of clients

Client financial gain

Client satisfaction

Client financial confidence

Improved mental health as a result of the check.

Question reference: S5W-21004

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 24 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20751, by Aileen Campbell on 15 January 2019, for what reason it does not plan to publish the service level agreement.

Question reference: S5W-21003

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 24 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20757, by Aileen Campbell on 15 January 2019, whether it will provide the information that was requested regarding what procurement process was conducted for the provision of its Financial Health Check service.

Question reference: S5W-20986

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 24 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that the Northern Ireland scheme, Make the Call, has generated £37 million in extra benefits for 7,765 people, and how this compares with the performance of the Financial Health Check Service.

Question reference: S5W-20910

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 23 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many items listed in the Social Security Programme Board Dashboard, which forms the basis of the Social Security Programme Board Programme Director Progress Report, released under FoI/18/02096, were given a red RAG status, and what these red RAG status items were.

Programme Board Dashboards are part of routine reporting, and as such any RAG statuses are provided for internal discussion and not made public, on the grounds that doing so would inhibit substantially the free and frank exchange of views for the purposes of deliberation. The Programme Director’s Update is used to enable critical discussion that in turn supports the delivery of social security for Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-20850

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20557 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 January 2019, what format the release of the statistics will take, and how it will detail whether a child is the third or greater in a family.

Official statistics, covering the first months of applications for the Best Start Grant, will be published in April 2019. More-detailed analysis will be published in a quarterly publication series starting from August 2019. In line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, care will be taken to ensure that these publications are produced to a level of quality that meets users’ needs. Published data will be subject to disclosure control methods to protect the confidentiality of the data.

Question reference: S5W-20851

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20557 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 January 2019, on what date the statistics will be released, and for what reason the date is not listed in the document, Official Statistics - Forthcoming Publications.