Questions and answers
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
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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Question reference: S5O-02908
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 21 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether the new Scottish Forestry organisation will use the ePlanning portal to allow greater community consultation and transparency for proposed new planting or changes to the management of the forest estate.
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Question reference: S5W-21336
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 19 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how complete the Scottish Land Register is.
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Question reference: S5W-21699
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 February 2019
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Fergus Ewing on 18 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making on completing the devolution of forestry by bringing into force the Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018.
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Question reference: S5W-21406
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 18 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its policy is on the use of mobile phones in school classrooms, and whether it has any plans for a complete ban on personal devices.
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Question reference: S5W-21221
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what plans there are to extend the use of the railhead at Georgemas to commercial use in order to take more freight off roads and onto railways.
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Question reference: S5O-02849
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how it can support schools to ensure that their staff and teachers are trauma informed.
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Question reference: S5F-03036
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 January 2019
To ask the First Minister what support the Scottish Government provides to mountain rescue services.
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Question reference: S5W-21051
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by James Wolffe QC on 23 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Crown Office will publish its final letter of instruction to the Procurator Fiscal at Dingwall from January 1996 regarding tolls on the Skye bridge.
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Question reference: S5O-02798
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 23 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made with the Far North Line Working Group's proposals.
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Question reference: S5W-21076
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2019
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Fergus Ewing on 18 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to better understand the role that mobile abattoirs could play in the rural economy and constituencies such Caithness, Sutherland and Ross.
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