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
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Question reference: S6W-14755
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many non-native gamebirds are released in Scotland each year.
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Question reference: S6W-14881
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is considering introducing further restrictions on the shooting of native woodcock, in light of the reported decline in European woodcock populations over the last 10 years, current pressures from bird flu and the unusually cold winter.
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Question reference: S6W-15148
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in exploring the (a) capping and (b) tapering of base-level payments to release additional funding to meet the goals of its agricultural vision, as set out in its Programme for Government 2022-23.
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Question reference: S6W-15210
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the progress of its discussions with the UK Government regarding the enactment of secondary legislation made under section 4 of the Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020, which would enable pre-existing marriages to become civil partnerships.
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Question reference: S6W-14757
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many release sites there are for non-native gamebirds in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-14762
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider further regulating the (a) collection and reporting of data related to, (b) management of and (c) release of non-native gamebirds.
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Question reference: S6W-15209
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to publish the interim findings from the Green Heat Finance Taskforce.
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Question reference: S6W-15320
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how Marine Scotland’s guidance for a European Protected Species licence in relation to the use of acoustic deterrent devices (a) accounts for the reported uneven distribution of cetaceans across the seabed and (b) has taken recent academic research on cetacean distribution into account.
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Question reference: S6W-14758
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that the available data on the numbers of gamebirds released, and number and locations of release sites, is adequate for the purposes of (a) effectively (i) assessing and (ii) controlling the spread of diseases from gamebirds to wildlife, and (b) monitoring any other environmental impacts of gamebird releases.
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Question reference: S6W-14863
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 28 February 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether its vision for sustainable aquaculture includes new salmon farms in national parks, in light of reported attempts by developers to create a salmon farm in the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.