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-13751
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 23 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) monitoring and (b) research activity it is supporting to improve the understanding of (i) industry and (ii) decision makers of the impacts of onshore wind farms on (A) birds, (B) bats, (C) peatlands and (D) other species and habitats.
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Question reference: S5W-13753
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 23 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what opportunities there are for developers to coordinate wind farm re-powering proposals to maximise their climate and environmental benefits.
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Question reference: S5W-13752
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 23 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many onshore wind farms it estimates will be re-powered in each of the next five years.
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Question reference: S5W-13393
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the welfare implications are of the delay in granting protected status to the European beaver.
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Question reference: S5W-13470
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to ensure that future farm subsidy support will deliver sustainable land management, and what advice and support will be given to farmers to ensure they can access funding.
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Question reference: S5W-13395
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how the Scottish Rural Development Programme can be used to support the integration of the European beaver into catchment land management regimes.
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Question reference: S5W-13396
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government by what date will it introduce regulations to grant the European beaver protected status.
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Question reference: S5W-13394
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many dead European beavers have been found since May 2016, also broken down by how many were sent to Scottish Natural Heritage for autopsy.
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Question reference: S5W-13471
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 10 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on the development of the detailed reporting framework for the Land Use Strategy that was reportedly due in December 2016; which policies and proposals due to be completed by the end of 2017 have not been achieved, and when the reporting framework will be published.
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Question reference: S5W-13472
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 10 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when ministers last met to discuss the results of the SNH scoping exercise on an uplands vision, and when a decision will be made on when to develop an uplands vision.
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