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: S6W-17439
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 9 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what it is doing to raise awareness of Lyme disease, and to improve diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
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Question reference: S6W-17451
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 9 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what support it has given to mapping ticks in Scotland, in a similar way to avalanches via the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, in light of reports of a serious tick-borne disease being discovered in the UK.
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Question reference: S6W-16672
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 4 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any potential impact of reintroducing wildcats to the Cairngorms.
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Question reference: S6W-17007
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-15682 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 20 March 2023, whether Education Scotland school inspection guidelines are enforced, and, if so, whose responsibility it is to do so, in light of this information not being published on the Education Scotland website.
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Question reference: S6W-17334
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-16175 by Kevin Stewart on 5 April 2023, how much replacement planting is planned along the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route for trees that have failed to become properly established.
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Question reference: S6W-16667
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether its plans for Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMA) take into account the protection of migratory fish stocks, such as by allowing for HPMA sites to move geographically or be time-limited.
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Question reference: S6W-17333
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-16174 by Kevin Stewart on 5 April 2023, what the recorded success rate was of tree planting along the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route in year (a) one, (b) two and (c) three of the Establishment Period.
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Question reference: S6W-16673
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 27 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it will update its website to reflect that its Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate no longer has input in the development of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.
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Question reference: S6W-16669
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 26 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to reintroduce lynx into Scotland, and, if so, what assessment it has made of any potential impact that this would have on livestock.
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Question reference: S6W-16671
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 25 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to protect biodiversity in Scottish waters from the invasive signal crayfish species.
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