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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to explore mechanisms to make more publicly owned land available to new entrants into farming and crofting.
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the national development plan for crofting.
To ask the Scottish Government when it will reintroduce the croft house loan scheme.
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to introduce a new entrants' scheme for crofters.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making on modernising crofting law.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered the appointment of a Scottish anti-bullying "tsar".
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to make bullying a specific offence.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to formalise and record nationally the number of young people bullied in schools.
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £65.5 million budget for the less favoured area support scheme for 2016 has been spent; how much has been projected to be spent in the remainder of the year, and whether it plans to reduce payments in 2016.
To ask the Scottish Government how it is planning to address homelessness in rural areas.