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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-19399

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 November 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what information it will receive from the DWP in cases where the earnings of a recipient of carer's allowance have breached the earnings threshold, and how Social Security Scotland will use this information for the purposes of recovering carer's allowance supplement.

Question reference: S5W-19208

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 25 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many carer's allowance supplement payments have been returned or were not successful.

Question reference: S5W-19213

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 25 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18935 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 3 October 2018, who the suppliers are, and whether they are (a) disability confident, (b) carer positive and (c) living wage accredited.

The suppliers referred to are listed in the following table with their current status in the following categories: (a) disability confident, (b) carer positive and (c) living wage accredited.

Suppliers	disability confident	carer positive	living wage accredited
28 York Place Limited	No	No	No
2i Limited	No	No	Yes
2T Security Limited	No	No	No
Aberdeen PA Limited t/a Scottish PA Network	No	No	No
Albion Trust Management Limited	No	No	No
ACCA	No	No	Yes
APS Group (Scotland) Limited	Yes	No	Yes
ASA Recruitment	No	No	Yes
Association for Project Management (APM)	Yes	No	No
Azure Support Services Limited	No	No	No
Calton Heritage & Learning Centre	No	No	No
Capita Business Services Limited - SWAN	No	No	Yes
Capita Resourcing Limited	No	No	No
Capital Solutions	No	No	Yes
Carnegie Enterprise Limited	No	No	Yes
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)	Yes	No	Yes
CIPD Enterprises Limited	No	No	No
CIPFA Business Limited	No	No	No
Club Class Catering	No	No	No
Computacenter United Kingdom Limited	Yes	No	No
Cordia	Yes	No	No
Craigforth HCAS Limited	No	No	No
Daisy Communications Limited	No	No	No
Dcal Consulting Limited	No	No	No
Demys Limited	No	No	No
Diona (UK) Limited	No	No	Yes
Dod's Parliamentary Communications	No	No	No
DXC Technology	No	No	No
Eagle Couriers Scotland Limited	Yes	No	No
Edinburgh Training & Conference Venue	No	No	No
Elite Training & Consultancy (Scotland) Limited	No	No	No
ExecSpace Limited	No	No	No
Fannan & Scott Limited t/a Northern Services	No	No	No
Flexiform Business Furniture Limited	No	No	Yes
FPSG Connect Limited	No	No	Yes
Gartner UK Limited	No	No	Yes
Gate Worldwide Limited, The	No	No	No
Global Language Services Limited	No	No	Yes
Government Knowledge Training Limited	No	No	No
Grand Central Hotel (Glasgow)	No	No	No
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited	Yes	No	Yes
Heart of Midlothian Plc	No	No	Yes
Holyrood Communications Limited	No	No	No
Horsecross Arts (Perth) Limited	No	No	No
HP Inc. UK Limited	No	No	No
i Train Scotland	No	No	No
IBM UK Limited	No	No	Yes
IET Services Limited	No	No	No
Insight Direct UK Limited	No	No	No
Institute for Management Studies (Scotland), The	No	No	No
Jonathan Elliott t/a Talk Action	No	No	No
Jones Lang La Salle Limited	No	No	Yes
KSO Research Limited	No	No	Yes
LA Catering	No	No	No
Leidos Innovations UK Limited	No	No	No
Lesar UK Limited	No	No	No
Live Borders Limited	No	No	No
MacRoberts, Solicitors	Yes	No	Yes
Melting Pot	No	No	Yes
Misco UK Limited	No	No	No
Mitrefinch Limited	No	No	No
Morton Fraser	No	No	No
Neatebox Limited	Yes	No	No
New Ricoh UK Limited	No	No	No
nuVideo Limited	No	No	No
ORB International	No	No	No
ORB International KMS Limited	No	No	No
Parity Professionals Limited	No	No	Yes
Plain English Campaign Limited	No	No	No
Pluralsight LLC	No	No	No
QA Limited	Yes	No	No
Quo Imus Limited T/A QI Consulting	No	No	No
Radisson SAS Edinburgh Hotel	No	No	No
Ridgeway Consulting	No	No	No
Ross Promotional Products Limited	No	No	No
Rostec Consultancy Limited	No	No	No
Salesforce.com Sarl	No	No	No
Sapphire Technologies Limited	No	No	No
Scottish Storytelling Centre	No	No	No
Security Services Group	No	No	No
Service Graphics Limited	No	No	No
Sopra Steria Limited	No	No	Yes
Spring Technology Staffing Services Limited	No	No	Yes
STUC Training Limited	No	No	Yes
Taylor McKenzie Research & Marketing Limited	No	No	Yes
Tayside Contracts	Yes	No	Yes
The Hub Events Limited	No	No	No
The OR Society	No	No	No
The Stationery Office (TSO)	No	No	No
TMP (UK) Limited	No	No	No
TNS UK Limited t/a TNS BMRB	No	No	No
Trustmarque Solutions Limited	No	No	No
Viking Direct Limited	No	No	No
XMA Limited	No	No	No

Question reference: S5W-19085

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 24 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many performance-related fees have been paid to Fair Start Scotland providers based on the (a) 13- and (b) 26-week employment milestones, and what the value of these fees is.

Question reference: S5W-19209

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 23 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18932 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 3 October 2018, whether its shortlisting of the buildings included consideration of ScotRail's designation of High Street Station as not having (a) accessible ticket machines, (b) a ramp for train access, (c) step-free access coverage, (d) impaired mobility set down and (e) wheelchairs.

Question reference: S5W-19207

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 23 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many carer's allowance supplement payments it is still to make.

There are 152 payments of carer's allowance supplement which remain to be made. In order for payment to be made, we require clients to provide information to Social Security Scotland. Social Security Scotland is in the process of contacting these individuals.

1. From the 152 payments still to be made, 100 are for cases where the Carer is now deceased. Social Security Scotland are in the process of contacting the Carers next of kin to obtain details to issue these payments. Once this information has been received payment will be issued.

2. The remaining 52 payments are in relation to payments which have been unsuccessful and returned, we are waiting on updated bank details from the client to re-issue the payment.

Question reference: S5O-02464

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S5W-19211

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18843 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 4 October 2018, whether experience panels have (a) been asked whether or (b) proposed that Social Security Scotland should provide a range of application forms for disability assistance that correspond with an individual's primary condition.

We have asked the Experience Panels how the application process can be made more accessible and can best enable people to explain how their illness or disability affects them. The findings from these projects are currently being analysed and will be published in the coming months.

The Scottish Government is committed to creating an application process that is accessible to all who need to access disability assistance.

Question reference: S5W-19227

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18928 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 3 October 2018, when the (a) supplementary information will be published and (b) invitation to tender will be issued, and whether it will make the information detailing the outline service requirement, the procurement process and the support available to potential tenderers publicly available outwith its Dynamic Purchasing System.

Question reference: S5W-19212

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18930 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 3 October 2018, when this information will be in the public domain, and whether the withholding of the information is consistent with the co-design approach agreed by the Parliament on 2 October 2018.

The information referred to will be announced in due course. As noted previously, in line with the principles of co-design, the Social Security Experience Panels have provided extensive input into the Disability Benefits Discovery work, particularly in relation to their experiences of the current system of assessments. This engagement will carry on throughout the development of the disability benefits service over the coming months.