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-33386
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether the risk of peat slides is taken into consideration when planning permission is being sought for windfarm construction.
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Question reference: S5O-04822
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it is having with local authorities regarding their future funding settlements.
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Question reference: S5O-04777
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 November 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what measures are being put in place to support youth theatre during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S5W-32595
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the Scottish Land Commission Report on regional land use partnerships.
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Question reference: S5W-32290
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recommendation by Professors Werritty and Reid that a period of five years should be seen as the scientifically-based timescale to study the variability in raptor populations.
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Question reference: S5W-32291
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether Ministers will take into consideration the stage 2 research into the socio-economic and biodiversity impacts of grouse moor management and the employment rights of gamekeepers, which is expected to be published soon, before it responds to the Werrity Review.
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Question reference: S5W-32289
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates that post-Brexit Common Frameworks will be agreed between the UK Government and the devolved administrations, and how these Common Frameworks will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny.
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Question reference: S5W-31605
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration was given to increasing deer fencing in September 2020 around tree plantations vulnerable to damage caused by red deer.
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Question reference: S5W-31603
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) research was undertaken and (b) assessments were carried out in (i) local and (ii) national forests prior to the policy decision to kill lactating female red and roe deer, some with dependent calves, from 1 September 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-31606
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration was given to starting the red deer culls closer to the start of the legal open season for 2020 when calves are stronger and do not rely on their mothers.