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 when it will complete the full business case review on a new hospital to replace St Brendan's Hospital in Barra.
To ask the Scottish Government whether decisions regarding Highlands and Islands Enterprise economic development and social support spending will be made locally by people who live and work in the area.
To ask the Scottish Government when it will provide a substantive answer to question S5W-04347, which received a holding response on 14 November 2016.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to participate in mediation with tenant farmers and landowners who face eviction as a result of the outcome of the Salvesen v Riddell case.
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to re-advertise the post of chief executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), what the period of appointment will be and whether an HIE board will be constituted.
To ask the Scottish Government whether Rio Tinto has provided it with information regarding its consultation with (a) stakeholders of and (b) staff at Kinlochleven power station.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of its winter preparedness plans.
To ask the Scottish Government how it will monitor the phased-in landing obligation requirements (a) overall and (b) for North Sea cod in 2017 to ensure that no illegal discarding or high grading is occurring, also broken down by the amount of (i) observer and (ii) electronic monitoring coverage it plans.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-01873 by Roseanna Cunningham on 10 August 2016, how long the vessel remained in port before resuming duties on each of the nine occasions that mariners had to be put ashore, also broken down by how many times (a) suitably qualified replacement mariners were hired and (b) the vessel resumed sailing without a full complement of crew.
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what percentage of fishing (i) trips and (ii) hauls in each year since 2014 were (A) electronically monitored by cameras and (B) accompanied by fisheries observers.