Questions and answers
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
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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Question reference: S6W-16119
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 6 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address the reported record-high mortality rates in the Scottish salmon farming industry in 2022.
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Question reference: S6F-01967
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 March 2023
To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government will take to tackle the climate and nature emergencies.
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Question reference: S6W-14882
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 20 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Minister for Environment and Land Reform to the Member on 11 January 2023, how it determines whether any given incident or pattern of wildlife mortality is a "major conservation concern".
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Question reference: S6W-15189
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its National Rail Conversation does not seek the views of people in Scotland regarding the passenger rail services provided by West Coast Railways, in light of the reported views of local communities that are keen to see the company deliver a service that is run for the benefit of local residents as well as visitors.
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Question reference: S6O-02041
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how it is ensuring that legal aid funding is easily available to tenants in order to defend eviction proceedings.
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Question reference: S6F-01913
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 March 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 March 2023
To ask the First Minister, ahead of the publication of the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change next week, what the Scottish Government is doing to ensure that Scotland plays a leading role in tackling the global climate emergency.
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Question reference: S6O-02013
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on delivering the Bute House Agreement commitment to ensure that community housing trusts are adequately funded so that they can support the delivery of enhanced rural home building plans.
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Question reference: S6W-14761
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 8 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what action it plans to take to reduce the potential risk of future high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) transmission from released pheasants to (a) wild birds of prey, (b) waterfowl, (c) corvids and (d) gulls, which were assessed as “high” or “very high risk” in the Risk Assessment on the spread of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) to wild birds from released, formerly captive gamebirds in Great Britain, which was published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in December 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-15424
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Elena Whitham on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service employs a dedicated rural wildfire investigation officer or team.
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Question reference: S6W-15425
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Elena Whitham on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of rural wildfires attended by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in each of the last five years have been caused by (a) deliberate fire-setting and (b) prescribed muirburn that accidentally got out of control, based on Scottish Fire and Rescue Service data.