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 the environmental effects of operational wind farms are monitored.
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it gives to (a) Scottish Natural Heritage, (b) local planning authorities or (c) others to ensure that the environmental impacts of wind farms are monitored and do not exceed statutory limits.
To ask the Scottish Executive what signage requirements there are for local authorities when introducing a mandatory 20 mph limit.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vehicles it (a) owns and (b) leases and how many are (i) electric and (ii) hybrid powered.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the older people's housing strategy will compel local authorities to develop local strategies in line with national priorities and how it will ensure that the strategy has a comprehensive national coverage.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money will be involved in the delivery of the older people's housing strategy, broken down by local authority area.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that any older people's housing strategy funding is spent on the priorities laid out in local and national documents.
To ask the Scottish Executive how often it will review progress toward the targets in the older people's housing strategy.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the scoring threshold for applications for agri-environment options in the Scotland Rural Development Programme Rural Priorities scheme will need to be increased in order to reduce the number of approvals if demand from applicants is greater than the available budget or whether the budget will rise to reflect demand.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the consideration to suspend certain axes 1 and 3 options in the Scotland Rural Development Programme Rural Priorities scheme is a reflection of the budgetary constraints under which the scheme will operate if proposed spending reductions go ahead in the period 2012 to 2015.