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.
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To ask the Scottish Executive how it assesses significant impacts of woodland expansion proposals greater than 0.25 hectares on (a) biodiversity and (b) the historic environment.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many woodland expansion proposals have been consented without an approved environmental impact assessment by each Forestry Commission Scotland conservancy since 2007 for new woodland planting on (a) sensitive and (b) non-sensitive sites.
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the document, Scottish Government Consultation on the European Commission's proposals for the future Common Agricultural Policy 2014 - 2020, did not provide more space for respondents to qualify their answers to multiple choice questions.
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it takes to deal with responses to its consultations in which it is considered that multiple choice answers have been interpreted in different ways.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the questions in the document, Scottish Government Consultation on the European Commission's proposals for the future Common Agricultural Policy 2014 - 2020, might lead to answers that can be interpreted in different ways.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-06199 by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2012, what progress it has made to ensure that a funding mechanism is in place for rural development programmes if the European Commission’s reformed common agricultural policy is not in place from 1 January 2014.
To ask the Scottish Executive what major events it plans to support in 2017.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will issue a list of wind farm sites that are to be developed on the national forest estate.
To ask the Scottish Executive when the strategic environmental assessment for its 2020 Routemap for Renewable Energy in Scotland will be complete and when it will be published.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the timeframe is for its investment of £50 million to improve the Caledonian Sleeper service.