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
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Question reference: S5W-35906
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many beavers were killed under licenced lethal control measures in the calendar year 2020, also broken down by the (a) date of each incident, (b) number of family groups of beavers that were killed, including how many were in each group and (c) sex and age of the beavers, and how many of the beavers were subject to a post-mortem by NatureScot or its agents to verify that there was compliance with the appropriate regulations.
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Question reference: S5W-35907
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many expressions of interest or requests have been received by (a) it and (b) NatureScot since 1 May 2020 from parties in England and Wales interested in acquiring beavers for translocation to assist with flood resilience and biodiversity enhancement projects, broken down by the date of receipt.
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Question reference: S5W-35895
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the data that was required to be submitted to NatureScot by 31 December 2020 regarding the annual returns for licences that were granted in 2019 and 2020 to land owners and other stakeholders for beaver mitigation measures.
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Question reference: S5W-35904
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much NatureScot spent in the calendar year 2020 on the (a) development and (b) installation of non-lethal beaver mitigation measures.
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Question reference: S5W-35910
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many spot-checks of licensees for the lethal control of beavers were carried out in the calendar year, 2020, also broken down by how many (a) discrepancies were identified and (b) licences were revoked.
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Question reference: S5W-35900
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many beavers were translocated to (a) suitable habitats in existing beaver ranges in Scotland and (b) contained trial sites in England in the calendar year 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-35903
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many licences authorising the removal of beaver dams in response to concerns regarding activities that were restricting the passage of fish were issued by NatureScot to (a) riparian and (b) land managers in the calendar year 2020, and how many licences were refused.
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Question reference: S5W-36036
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 18 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will extend the Food for Life programme to support the delivery of free school meals.
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Question reference: S5W-35388
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 18 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will revise its model for determining whether cetaceans can be restored to, or maintained at, Favourable Conservation Status, in light of any evidence that measurements from field studies found a much greater area of disturbance than the model predicts.
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Question reference: S5W-35306
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 12 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the outcome of the ScotWind offshore wind leasing round will be published before the COP26 conference in November 2021.
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