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-04500
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications for species licences to use snares to capture mountain hare have been made since 2006; how many have been (a) granted and (b) revoked and for what reasons licences were not granted or revoked.
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Question reference: S5W-04501
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is taking to ensure that estates adhere to voluntary restraint on large culls of mountain hare, as called for by the joint position taken by Scottish Natural Heritage, the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and Scottish Land and Estates on large-scale culls of mountain hare to reduce louping ill, and what measures it is taking to monitor compliance with this policy.
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Question reference: S5W-04502
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is taking to end large-scale culls of mountain hare in national parks.
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Question reference: S5W-04503
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to the use of a nature conservation order to end large-scale culls of mountain hare in national parks.
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Question reference: S5W-04564
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it is giving to measures to mitigate the impact of the UK Government's revised benefit cap.
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Question reference: S5W-04563
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of the UK Government's revised benefit cap on (a) poverty and (b) child poverty in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-04068
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 11 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on university medical schools introducing more flexible admissions policies to encourage a more diverse cohort of undergraduates.
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Question reference: S5W-04069
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how its proposals for national and regional workforce planning will help to achieve parity between mental and physical health.
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Question reference: S5W-04076
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 9 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will (a) produce a public health strategy to help NHS boards focus on preventing ill health and tackle health inequalities and (b) model the cost of implementing the National Clinical Strategy, as recommended in the Audit Scotland report, NHS in Scotland 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-04067
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 8 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recommendation by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, what progress it is making toward establishing a managed clinical network for perinatal mental health.
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