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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 10 January 2025
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Question reference: S4W-06836

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 April 2012
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 30 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional steps it will take to assess sea lice induced mortality of wild salmonids, as per the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization's Guidance on Best Management Practices to address impacts of sea lice and escaped farmed salmon on wild salmon stocks.

Question reference: S4W-06831

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 April 2012
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 30 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the statement in the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization's Final Report of the Aquaculture, Introductions and Transfers and Transgenics Focus Area Review Group that "the number of sea lice may be less than one per farmed fish but that may still translate to large numbers of lice in the environment because of the scale of production".

Question reference: S4W-06837

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 April 2012
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 30 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on a trial of closed containment for marine finfish aquaculture, in light of the recent trial of such a system by Aquamarine in Canada.

Question reference: S4W-06835

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 April 2012
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 30 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional steps it will take to assess sea lice loads on wild salmonids compared with areas with no salmon farms, as per the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization's Guidance on Best Management Practices to address impacts of sea lice and escaped farmed salmon on wild salmon stocks.

Question reference: S4W-06839

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 April 2012
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the proposed Aquaculture and Fisheries Bill will include provisions to ensure that fish genetic samples are produced from salmon fisheries where necessary.

Question reference: S4W-06584

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 02 April 2012
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the second report on its proposals and policies to meet its emissions reduction targets will set out the budgetary spend required by each of its departments.

Question reference: S4W-06582

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 02 April 2012
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional policies each of its departments has introduced since the publication of the first report on proposals and policies to meet its emissions reduction targets.

Question reference: S4W-06585

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 02 April 2012
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the recommendation of the UK Committee on Climate Change that "it will be essential for the Scottish Government to ensure full roll-out of measures in devolved policy areas, such as demand-side transport and agriculture and land use" what steps it has taken to ensure a full roll-out of proposals listed in its first report on proposals and policies to meet its emissions reduction targets.

Question reference: S4W-06583

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 02 April 2012
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will take forward the recommendation by the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee to ensure that all proposals and policies in any future revisions of its report on its proposals and policies to meet its emissions reduction targets are fully funded.

Question reference: S4W-06578

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 02 April 2012
  • Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the second report on proposals and policies to meet its emission reductions targets will contain a revision of the first report.