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 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 decision to suspend the Axis 2 Management of Hedgerows option in the Scotland Rural Development Programme Rural Priorities scheme is a result of budgetary constraints caused by spending reductions in 2010-11.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much had been spent on the tender process for the Borders Railway project prior to the announcement that it would be delivered by Transport Scotland and Network Rail.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to develop vocational skills training in the Scottish Borders.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S4W-02363 and S4W-00597 by Richard Lochhead on 22 September 2011 and 17 June 2011 respectively, how much will be spent on the programme in the current spending review period, broken down by delivery scheme.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new entrants to farming there were in each of the four years preceding the introduction of the new entrants to farming scheme.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new farmers have entered the industry since the introduction of the new entrants to farming scheme.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been allocated through the new entrants to farming scheme in each year since its introduction.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-02365 by Richard Lochhead on 13 September 2011, whether sheep farmers are exempt from the need to obtain 100% accuracy on their on-farm sheep flock registers.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many claims have been submitted for funding from the new entrants to farming scheme and how many were successful in each year since its introduction.