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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 24 December 2024
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Question reference: S5W-35912

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what monitoring of beaver control is in place, and how many beavers are known to have been killed in the calendar year 2020.

Question reference: S5W-35909

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many beaver lethal control licences were issued in the calendar year 2020 by NatureScot without a site visit being carried out by the agency or its agents in the six months prior to the issue to verify that each licence was required as a last resort.

Question reference: S5W-35904

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how much NatureScot spent in the calendar year 2020 on the (a) development and (b) installation of non-lethal beaver mitigation measures.

Question reference: S5W-35902

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many flood mitigation trials deploying translocated beavers were established in the calendar year 2020.

Question reference: S5W-35903

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many licences authorising the removal of beaver dams in response to concerns regarding activities that were restricting the passage of fish were issued by NatureScot to (a) riparian and (b) land managers in the calendar year 2020, and how many licences were refused.

Question reference: S5W-36036

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 18 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will extend the Food for Life programme to support the delivery of free school meals.

Question reference: S5W-35388

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 18 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will revise its model for determining whether cetaceans can be restored to, or maintained at, Favourable Conservation Status, in light of any evidence that measurements from field studies found a much greater area of disturbance than the model predicts.

Question reference: S5W-35306

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 12 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether the outcome of the ScotWind offshore wind leasing round will be published before the COP26 conference in November 2021.

Question reference: S5W-35307

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 10 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how the ScotWind offshore wind leasing round might help secure supply chain investment.

Question reference: S5W-35304

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 10 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what additional resources it is providing to its agencies to ensure timely consenting of offshore wind projects that are successful in the ScotWind leasing round.