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: S4O-01511
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2012
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to improve cycling infrastructure.
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Question reference: S4W-10269
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the sustainable development of the marine environment will be a plan-led rather than development-led process under the revised timetable for the National Marine Plan.
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Question reference: S4W-10268
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) procedural or (b) resource reasons are for the changes to the timetable for the National Marine Plan.
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Question reference: S4W-10267
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how the National Marine Plan will manage the use of marine resources and the potential impacts on the health of the marine environment.
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Question reference: S4W-10263
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-07280 by Richard Lochhead on 31 May 2012, whether the cabinet secretary will make a statement on the publication of the National Marine Plan.
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Question reference: S4W-10270
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what level of priority it attaches to marine planning.
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Question reference: S4W-10272
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how the National Marine Plan will direct and guide sectoral plans that are published before it.
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Question reference: S4W-10271
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of its resources Marine Scotland has allocated to completing the National Marine Plan.
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Question reference: S4W-10275
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how the National Marine Plan will help deliver the ministerial duty to protect and, where appropriate, enhance the health of the marine area.
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Question reference: S4W-10273
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how it will sustainably manage the demands of marine activities ahead of publishing the National Marine Plan.
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