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: S5W-08972
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether a stock assessment will be conducted prior to the controlled trial of electrofishing for razor clams, and whether it will include (a) measures of spawning stock biomass, (b) population structure and (c) recruitment by scientific evaluation, or whether it will be an exclusively fisheries-dependent assessment, based on landings, conducted during the course of the fishing trials.
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Question reference: S5W-08967
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many permissions to fish for razor clams there are.
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Question reference: S5W-08966
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what research into the longer-term impacts of electrofishing will be carried out, in accordance with the recommendation of its 2014 study into the short-term effects.
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Question reference: S5W-08390
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what role Scottish Natural Heritage has in proposals for ship-to-ship transfers.
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Question reference: S5W-08389
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government which public bodies provide nature conservation advice regarding proposals for ship-to-ship transfers in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-08682
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the role of natural flood management measures in flood risk reduction, and how the potential associated benefits of these measures, such as enhanced biodiversity, are considered as part of decisions and action taken under the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009.
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Question reference: S5W-08684
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what natural flood management measures are being progressed with funding allocated as part of its 10-year flood funding strategy with COSLA.
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Question reference: S5W-08685
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many natural flood management measures have (a) not progressed and (b) been scaled down due to a lack of landowner buy-in.
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Question reference: S5W-08683
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on any natural flood management studies (a) completed and (b) that are ongoing under the Flood Risk Management Strategies.
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Question reference: S5W-08694
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2017
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 24 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many planning appeals have been determined under ministerial direction since April 2016.
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