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-14464
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2018
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Question reference: S5W-14467
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5T-00925 by Fergus Ewing on 6 February 2018 (Official Report, c. 7), how many (a) sheep and lambs and (b) cattle and calves were exported for slaughter or fattening in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017 to (A) the rest of the UK and (B) other countries, and how much these exports were worth.
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Question reference: S5W-14465
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5T-00925 by Fergus Ewing on 6 February 2018 (Official Report, c. 7), what consultation it has had with (a) animal welfare groups, (b) farmers' representatives and (c) other stakeholders regarding the impact on Scotland of a UK-wide ban on the export of live animals for slaughter.
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Question reference: S5W-14462
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5T-00925 by Fergus Ewing on 6 February 2018 (Official Report, c. 7), how many (a) sheep, (b) cattle and (c) poultry were exported for breeding in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017 to (A) the rest the UK and (B) other countries outside of the UK, and how much these exports were worth.
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Question reference: S5W-14461
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5T-00925 by Fergus Ewing on 6 February 2018 (Official Report, c. 7), what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding a ban on the export of live animals for fattening and slaughter.
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Question reference: S5W-14468
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5T-00925 by Fergus Ewing on 6 February 2018 (Official Report, c. 7), what tonnage of (a) sheep meat and (b) beef was exported in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017 to (A) the rest of the UK and (B) other countries, and how much these exports were worth.
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Question reference: S5W-14724
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-10828 by Humza Yousaf on 14 September 2017, how many incidents of stop-skipping have occurred on the ScotRail network since 20 August 2017, and what percentage of trains this represents, broken down by station affected.
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Question reference: S5W-14897
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 12 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when it will launch its consultation on the introduction of compulsory video recording of slaughter at abattoirs in order to aid the enforcement of welfare requirements by abattoir management and Food Standards Scotland, as outlined in its Programme for Government 2017-18.
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Question reference: S5W-14518
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 February 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 8 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many commercial livestock have been slaughtered without having been pre-stunned in each year since 2013, broken down by species.
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Question reference: S5O-01889
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis the health secretary has made of the potential implications for Scotland of the findings in the recent annual report of the Chief Medical Officer for England, which addressed the impact on public health of pollution.
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