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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To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to address any challenges associated with digital poverty in relation to Scotland's Census 2022.
To ask the Scottish Government what assurances it has sought from National Records of Scotland in relation to people with poor or intermittent internet connectivity still being able to complete Scotland's Census 2022.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of its new vision for agriculture, how it will encourage more farmers and crofters to farm and produce food organically through financial support and other incentives.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of its new vision for agriculture, what specific steps it plans to take to “enable more local employment on the land, more women to enter farming and more new and young entrants into farming”.
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to ensure that the process for requesting a paper copy of Scotland's Census 2022 is easy for people who (a) do not have, or are not confident using, online technology and (b) are uncomfortable with using, or unable to use, an interactive voice system.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05559 by Humza Yousaf on 31 January 2022, what criteria were used to determine the current stroke care brain scan standard of 90% scanned within 12 hours, and, in light of strokes often being time-critical medical emergencies, for what reasons it considers this standard to be appropriate.
To ask the Scottish Government when it will issue its response to the homeowner feedback survey on the Home Energy Efficiency Equity Loan Pilot.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many children have attended outdoor education centres in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) funding and (b) other support it provides for school breakfast clubs.
To ask the Scottish Government what the median waiting time for a brain scan has been in each of the last five years in (a) Scotland and (b) each NHS board.