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-34025
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 5 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the regulation and use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
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Question reference: S5W-33972
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on granting protected status to (a) hedgehogs and (b) hedgehog breeding sites from property developers.
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Question reference: S5W-33920
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-33328 by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 December 2020, whether it considers its decision to take no action regarding the unregulated release of non-native gamebirds is consistent with the precautionary principle and the principle that preventative action should be taken to avert environmental damage, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S5W-33922
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-33328 by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 December 2020, whether NatureScot will publish its monitoring programme that led it to conclude that “there is little evidence to show that gamebirds are causing damage to European sites in Scotland”.
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Question reference: S5W-33921
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-33328 by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 December 2020, how many Habitats Regulations Appraisals have been completed regarding applications for the release of non-native gamebirds in each of the last 10 years; whether Scottish Natural Heritage will publish the environmental reports that informed these appraisals, and how many consents have been (a) issued and (b) denied in response to these.
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Question reference: S5W-33762
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 17 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to issue a further fleet compensation scheme or relief funding for the shellfish industry and, if so, whether this would be conditional on remote electronic monitoring.
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Question reference: S5W-33942
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 16 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in the light of Scotland being declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone, what measures are in place to ensure that gamebird breeders (a) register captive flocks and (b) comply with all relevant aspects of the legislation.
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Question reference: S5W-33582
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 15 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-32898 by Fergus Ewing on 30 October 2020, whether, within the work of the new steering group and priority workstreams of the Farmed Fish Health Framework, (a) it still plans to (i) scale up the use of cleaner fish, with a concurrent increase of the production of farmed cleaner fish and (ii) introduce mandatory standards and requirements for cleaner fish welfare, including (A) mortality reporting, (B) humane slaughter and (C) species-specific welfare guidance and (b) there has been progress on the commitment to establish an international forum or platform to share cleaner fish husbandry best practice.
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Question reference: S5W-33583
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 14 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made within the Farmed Fish Health Framework towards the development of a standardised approach to the recording of on-farm mortality, and, further to the answer to question S5W-32898 by Fergus Ewing on 30 October 2020, whether, within the work of the new steering group and priority workstreams of the Framework, it plans to make mortality reporting mandatory.
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Question reference: S5W-33581
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 14 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-27712 by Fergus Ewing on 16 March 2020, when it expects to receive the results of the research being undertaken by the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre into the impacts of the use of thermal treatments for sea lice.
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