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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to issue further guidance to accompany the carbon calculator to assist planning officers evaluate the values entered in the calculator.
To ask the Scottish Government how many environmental impact assessments were carried out under the (a) Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Scotland) Regulations 1999, (b) Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2000, (c) Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Scotland) Regulations 2006, (d) Environmental Impact Assessment (Uncultivated Land and Semi-Natural Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 2002, (e) Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 and (f) Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1999 in each of the last five years for which information is available.
To ask the Scottish Government how it assesses the (a) site and (b) cumulative environmental impacts for proposals for woodland expansion on agricultural land.
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that any significant environmental effects that may arise as a result of woodland expansion projects on agricultural land are adequately assessed and considered before development consent is issued.
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) agriculture and (b) forestry projects there have been since 2008 in relation to which significant environmental effects occurred but no environmental impact assessment was required.
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that an assessment is carried out on all projects likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue of their nature, size or location.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to (a) investigate further or (b) enable further research into the impact of distance from drainage features on peat in relation to the carbon calculator.
To ask the Scottish Government what assistance it is providing to farmers adversely affected by the recent cold weather.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13200 by Michael Matheson on 5 March 2013, how many courses of the emergency contraceptive (a) ulipristal acetate and (b) levonorgestrel have been dispensed in each year since 2010-11, broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13200 by Michael Matheson on 5 March 2013, what its position is on the availability of the emergency contraceptive (a) ulipristal acetate and (b) levonorgestrel.