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: S5W-10185
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 July 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it supports communities in areas identified by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) to access the Climate Challenge Fund.
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Question reference: S5W-10043
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by David Stewart on 20 July 2017
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, further to the answer to question S5O-0076 by David Stewart on 9 March 2017 (Official Report, c.45), what progress has been made to achieve the Food For Life Silver quality mark
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Question reference: S5W-10040
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by James Wolffe QC on 20 July 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-09227 by the Lord Advocate on 24 May 2017, if the alleged crime is against (a) an animal or bird and (b) the environment, who can advocate for a review of a prosecutor’s decision.
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Question reference: S5W-10215
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 July 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether local or rural growth deals will be introduced, and how it plans to address issues that have been highlighted in responses to the Local Government and Communities Committee's city region deal inquiry, particularly regarding insufficient accountability and transparency.
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Question reference: S5W-10214
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 July 2017
To ask the Scottish Government which local authorities have submitted proposals for local or rural growth deal funding, and with which of these it has discussed the possibility of such funding.
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Question reference: S5W-10213
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 July 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether local or rural growth deals will be introduced across the whole of Scotland; what the timescale and process will be for agreeing deals, and whether they would be modelled on the existing city region deal agreements.
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Question reference: S5W-10212
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 July 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the aims and objectives of local or rural growth deals would be, and how they would align with existing national and local commitments on sustainable development.
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Question reference: S5W-10046
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 19 July 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the economic impact would be of a ban on dredging within three nautical miles of the shore, broken down by fishing sector.
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Question reference: S5W-09986
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 19 July 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the impact will be on Scotland of the European Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety's vote for a full ban on the use of neonicotinoids on 22 June 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-09987
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 19 July 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs regarding preventing the introduction of Xylella fastidiosa in imported plant products.