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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

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Question reference: S4W-02468

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance is used by NHS staff in audiology clinics when deciding upon whether it is appropriate to refer patients to lipreading services.

Lip reading services can be part of the wider rehabilitation support for patients with hearing loss visiting NHS audiology departments. At the present time no formal referral pathway exists between the NHS and support services such as lipreading. Patients are supplied with information packs containing details of all local activities and groups which they may find beneficial and where the local audiology service is aware of lip reading classes details of these will be included in the pack. An up to date list of Scottish lip reading classes provided by Action on Hearing Loss has recently been circulated to audiology departments to assist this.

Question reference: S4W-02704

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact of the Forestry Commissioners’ review of governance structures will be on research into sustainable forest management for public benefits in Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-02705

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for a forestry bill.

Question reference: S4W-02701

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Forestry Commissioners’ review of governance structures will apply to Forestry Commission Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-02703

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact of the Forestry Commissioners’ review of governance structures will be on the functions of Forestry Commission Great Britain that service Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-02702

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact of the Forestry Commissioners’ review of governance structures will be on Forestry Commission Scotland’s delivery of public benefits.

Question reference: S4W-02311

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time has been for Transport Scotland to respond to (a) emails and (b) written enquiries regarding the Forth Crossing Project in the last six months.

Question reference: S4W-02312

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of enquiries received by Transport Scotland between 1 August 2010 and 1 August 2011 were answered within 21 days.

Question reference: S4W-02541

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to review the (a) Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005, (b) Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 and (c) Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 with a view to introducing a village halls licence.

Question reference: S4W-02365

Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, following the introduction of the European Commission's electronic identification system, what percentage of read rate must be achieved by a sheep farmer to prevent investigations being conducted to establish whether other elements of the identification and traceability rules have been adhered to.

A minimum of 3% of holdings where sheep are kept are selected for inspections by risk analysis and at random as laid down by European legislation. These inspections cover the full range of requirements of Council Regulation 21/2004 as amended.

All elements of the identification and recording requirements will be checked on all inspections regardless of the percentage of read rate achieved when selling or buying animals through a critical control point.