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.
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To ask the Scottish Government which notified Site of Special Scientific Interest features in the Cairngorms National Park and Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park that are in unfavourable condition, including those where no change has been reported in between monitoring cycles, are the responsibility of (a) Forest and Land Scotland, (b) local authorities, (c) Scottish Water and (d) other government bodies, and which of these have been in unfavourable condition or unfavourable recovering for more than three years.
To ask the Scottish Government what the condition is of each feature on designated sites in the Cairngorms National Park and Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, broken down by whether they are the responsibility of a public body.
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects at least 80% of designated features to be in favourable condition, as set out in priority project 8 of Scotland’s biodiversity route map to 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to compensate for the loss of EU funding through the LIFE programme that has supported conservation projects in Scotland, including several that are included in the Scottish biodiversity route map to 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government how many hectares of land have been identified to meet the aims of priority project 10 in Scotland's biodiversity route map to 2020 to improve ecological connectivity; what habitats are involved; how many hectares are currently being managed for nature conservation under this programme; what the annual budget is to support habitat restoration, creation and protection work from 2015 to 2020, and who the project (a) leads and (b) partners are.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) land management orders, (b) nature conservation orders and (c) restoration orders have been issued by NatureScot in each of the last 10 years in order to address the condition of features on designated sites.
To ask the Scottish Government how much public funding has been made available in each of the last five years to fund the (a) management and (b) monitoring of (i) Sites of Special Scientific Interest, (ii) Special Areas of Conservation and (iii) Special Protection Areas in order to improve their ecological condition.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-31967 by Clare Haughey on 5 October 2020, whether (a) the funded training of additional psychological therapists is available to NHS staff only, (b) it is funding training in (i) clinical and (ii) applied psychology for people who do not work in the NHS, and (c) it is funding training in cognitive behavioural therapy for people who do not work in the NHS.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the regulation and use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-33328 by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 December 2020, how many Habitats Regulations Appraisals have been completed regarding applications for the release of non-native gamebirds in each of the last 10 years; whether Scottish Natural Heritage will publish the environmental reports that informed these appraisals, and how many consents have been (a) issued and (b) denied in response to these.