Parliamentary questions
Roz McCall
240 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
11 Sep 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential financial impact of freezing the (a) basic, (b) intermediate and (c) Higher Property Rate for 2025-26.
Answer · Ivan McKee: Assessments of revenue impact will be taken in the course of the Scottish Budget using up to date data relating to the non-domestic rates tax base and inflation. Indicative revenue changes of the result of a 1p change to the basic, intermediate and higher pro…
11 Sep 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how it will monitor the effectiveness of the campaign, Quit Fighting for Likes, which is aimed at young people to discuss attitudes and behaviours regarding the filming and sharing of violent incidents.
Answer · Siobhian Brown: The effectiveness of the campaign will be monitored by YouthLink Scotland, Medics Against Violence and the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit, our funded partners who created the campaign, produced the accompanying resources and will be delivering training sess…
10 Sep 2024 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to improve the school attendance of care experienced young people.
3 Sep 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many children’s hearing panel members there were in each local authority in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
Answer · Natalie Don-Innes: Children's Hearings Scotland regularly publishes data on panel member numbers as part of their Board papers, which can be found here (Our Board (chscotland.gov.uk)). A breakdown by Local Authority is a matter for Children's Hearings Scotland. This information…
1 Sep 2024 · First Minister's Question
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to the recently published report, Education Outcomes for Looked After Children 2022/23.
12 Jun 2024 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce waiting times for CAMHS in NHS Fife.
28 May 2024 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the national plan for action announced in November 2023 to tackle violence in schools.
21 May 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to improve the processing of accessing care records for care experienced people.
Answer · Maree Todd: The Digitisation of records is an operational responsibility of individual Health Boards GP practices and Local Authorities, and their partner organisations commissioned to deliver care. At a national level and building on the existing use of electronic recor…
21 May 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the National Records of Scotland regarding access to adoption records.
Answer · Natalie Don: The Scottish Government has ongoing dialogue with the National Records of Scotland regarding access to adoption records. We are exploring collaboratively what more we can do to ensure people affected by adoption are able to easily access the right information…
15 May 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to including a specified foster care allowance rate for young people in continuing care.
Answer · Natalie Don: The Scottish Recommended Allowance (SRA) currently applies to placements of children in foster care and eligible kinship care. Continuing care rates are for each individual local authority to determine. We are considering a range of issues that impact young …
15 May 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to increasing the recommended foster care allowance in line with inflation for 2024-25.
Answer · Natalie Don: The Scottish Government committed at the time the Scottish Recommended Allowance (SRA) was launched to, maintaining the 2023-24 levels of support for the allowances going forward, and to reviewing the funding implications for future years from 2024-25. We ar…
14 May 2024 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to promote Scottish manufacturing.
10 May 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many pupils were reported as being absent from school due to reasons relating specifically to parents working from home, since 2020.
Answer · Jenny Gilruth: This information is not held centrally.
10 May 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many pupils were reported as being absent from school due to reasons relating to employment commitments of parents, in the last year.
Answer · Jenny Gilruth: This information is not held centrally.
4 May 2024 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to ensure that tourism is inclusive and accessible for all.
29 Apr 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made regarding its commitment in the Stroke Improvement Plan 2023 to “support Scottish Ambulance Service in exploring the feasibility of using video call technology to more accurately diagnose hyperacute stroke”.
Answer · Jenni Minto: The Scottish Government has provided the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) with £38,713 to fund project work in support of this Stroke Improvement Plan commitment. This funding will support a project aiming to assess the feasibility and acceptability of video …
23 Apr 2024 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has conducted of the impact of its reformed dental payments system, introduced on 1 November 2023, in the Mid Scotland and Fife region.
23 Apr 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government when the 2023-24 Scottish Recommended Allowance for foster and kinship carers will be passed on to children living with foster carers from independent fostering providers.
Answer · Natalie Don: The Scottish Recommended Allowance (SRA) is a standard national allowance for all eligible foster and kinship carers in Scotland to support them in caring for the children and young people they look after. Its implementation is an agreement between the Scotti…
25 Mar 2024 · Topical Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that Scotland has become the "worst country in Europe" for unqualified beauticians injecting customers with cosmetic treatments.
11 Mar 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on delivering on the recommendations of the review of the Town Centres Action Plan.
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: Since the review of the Town Centre Action Plan (TCAP), we continue to implement the Town Centre First Principle and work closely with partners including COSLA and Scotland’s Towns Partnership (STP) to support progress on the delivery of actions outlined in T…
11 Mar 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on delivering on the recommendations of the City Centre Recovery Taskforce.
Answer · Richard Lochhead: I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-25980 on 14 March 2024. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committee…
5 Mar 2024 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has undertaken regarding the incorporation of the definition of deafblindness into the work of Social Security Scotland.
5 Mar 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many two-year-olds received the 1,140 hours of funded childcare in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
Answer · Natalie Don: The early learning and childcare (ELC) census Early learning and childcare statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) is the Scottish Government’s current annual data collection on funded ELC. The census collects data on the number of registrations for funded EL…
5 Mar 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how (a) many families have received support and (b) much has been spent from the Whole Family Wellbeing Funding to date, broken down by local authority area.
Answer · Natalie Don: Whole Family Wellbeing Funding was provided by the Scottish Government to deliver transformational change to improve holistic family support so that families get the right support, in the right way and at the right time. This includes £32m for Children’s Serv…
5 Mar 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the implementation of the Town Centre Action Plan.
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: The Town Centre Action Plan (TCAP) sets out our shared ambition for the future of town centres and is a call to action for partners, both locally and nationally, to re-build, re-energise and re-imagine our towns. This is a joint endeavour with responsibilitie…
5 Mar 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the progress of the City Centre Recovery Task Force.
Answer · Richard Lochhead: The City Centre Recovery Task Force published a report of their findings ( At the Heart of Economic Transformation: Report of the City Centre Recovery Task Force, 2021-22 (wpengine.com) ) in March 2022 which identified a number of priority outcomes to work …
4 Mar 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the proposed introduction of a non-domestic rates public health supplement on retailers, as set out in its Budget for 2024-25, would result in any grocery stores liable for the surtax paying the highest business rate poundage in the UK.
Answer · Tom Arthur: I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-24444 on 22 January 2024. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committ…
20 Feb 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what work it has done with relevant bodies to support them in the development of resources that contribute to a gender-competent, gender-equal curriculum.
Answer · Jenny Gilruth: Education Scotland’s Improving Gender Balance and Equalities (IGBE) programme aims to establish interventions to effect long term cultural change with a particular focus on challenging gender stereotypes, and addressing the impacts of unconscious bias to enco…
20 Feb 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to develop and deliver survivor-centred and trauma informed policies and procedures with regards to the Gender Equality Taskforce in Education and Learning.
Answer · Jenny Gilruth: Members of the Gender Equality Taskforce in Education & Learning, including representatives from Zero Tolerance and Rape Crisis Scotland, have participated in the Gender Based Violence in Schools Working Group, helping to drive forward the production of the G…
20 Feb 2024 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has developed a gender-competency framework for education and learning that incorporates intersectionality and anti-racism competencies, as part of the Gender Equality Taskforce in Education and Learning.
Answer · Jenny Gilruth: The Gender Equality Taskforce in Education & Learning developed a set of ambitions in order to help inform its work, including the development of an intersectional framework. Since then, discussion and work has been ongoing to refine the workplan, to ensure t…