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-06505
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government where the pilot areas will be for low-emission zones.
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Question reference: S5W-06502
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the timetable is for creating low-emission zones across the country.
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Question reference: S5W-06484
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what measures ministers plan to take to support (a) recreational sea angling and (b) tourism associated with inshore waters.
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Question reference: S5W-06483
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what measures ministers plan to take to support creelers and hand-divers operating in inshore waters.
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Question reference: S5W-06481
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it will give when drafting the Inshore Fisheries Bill to (a) international evidence from the north-east Atlantic, suggesting that marine spatial management improves the resilience of inshore fisheries and (b) measures to encourage whitefish recovery in order to diversify Scotland's commercial inshore fisheries.
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Question reference: S5W-06480
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what measures ministers plan to take to support the mobile gear sector operating in inshore waters.
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Question reference: S5W-05777
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions have taken place with stakeholders in relation to proposals for a tidal barrage on the River Forth at Stirling and the potential impact on designated local Special Protection Areas (SPA) and Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) interests.
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Question reference: S5W-06146
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings (a) ministers and (b) officials have had with (i) Scottish Natural Heritage and (ii) Scottish Enterprise at which proposals by Cromarty Firth Port Authority to carry out ship-to-ship oil transfers were discussed, broken down by (A) date and (B) location.
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Question reference: S5W-06053
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it uses section 48 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994 (as amended) to assess the impact on wildlife sites of ship-to-ship transfers of (a) oil and (b) other chemicals in (i) harbour authority areas, (ii) other inshore waters and (iii) offshore waters, and what assessment it has made of (A) the impact of its approach and (B) whether its approach meets the requirements of the habitats directive.
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Question reference: S5W-06060
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cromarty Firth Port Authority has consulted Scottish Natural Heritage for the purpose of carrying out an appropriate assessment of a plan or project under the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994 (as amended) for ship-to-ship transfers of oil in the Moray Firth.
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