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: S5W-08387
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 18 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06774 by Paul Wheelhouse on 23 February 2017, what further communication it has had with the UK Department for Transport regarding the review of the Merchant Shipping (Ship-to-Ship Transfers) Regulations 2010.
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Question reference: S5W-08692
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2017
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 18 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-07554 by Kevin Stewart on 6 March 2017, what target date it has set to determine the planning appeal.
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Question reference: S5O-00859
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 April 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its discussions with the UK Government and the EU regarding the licensing of seal killing and the fishery product import regime of the United States.
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Question reference: S5W-08393
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 10 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on draft European Commission regulations that would ban the use of neonicotinoids in agriculture.
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Question reference: S5W-08133
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 30 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government to what extent the research that it used to underpin its consultation on unconventional oil and gas extraction, Talking Fracking, explored the impacts of fracking on wildlife and biodiversity.
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Question reference: S5W-08140
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how NHS Fife is performing with regard to the waiting time targets for neurology.
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Question reference: S5W-07900
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 28 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in establishing the independent rural stakeholders group to advise on rural support beyond 2020, which was agreed by the Parliament in the debate on motion S5M-03463 on 19 January 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-07776
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what work it is undertaking to develop a vision for the uplands.
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Question reference: S5W-07699
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2017
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 14 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether guidance is provided to local authorities regarding the setting of fees for licensing (a) pet shops and (b) dog breeding facilities.
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Question reference: S5W-07635
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 14 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what actions, identified by the Scotland's Rural College’s marginal abatement cost curve as cost-effective, appear as policies in its draft Climate Change Plan.