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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government what the landowner responsibilities are for invasive species control, and what enforcement takes place.
To ask the Scottish Government what funding is available for the control of invasive species.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to consider setting geographic limits on the concentration of wind farms.
To ask the Scottish Government how many water quality tests have been conducted by (a) SEPA and (b) Scottish Water in each of the last five years.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what work is underway to develop effective non-lethal tools for application in Scottish rivers to protect declining native salmon stocks from seal predation, and what the timetable is for any development process.
To ask the Scottish Government how many water bodies have been defined by SEPA for the purpose of aquatic monitoring, and of these how many are (a) monitored for water quality, and how frequently and (b) tested for pollutants, including the Water Framework Directive priority substances, and at what time intervals.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to ensure that suicide awareness is taught in schools.
To ask the Scottish Government what water monitoring is being done for potential emerging contaminants, including pharmaceuticals, and whether there will be additional funding to support this new area of research and monitoring.
To ask the Scottish Government what changes to the funding for SEPA in relation to its role in water quality testing have there been in the last five years.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to the monitoring of seals that have been rehabilitated and then released, in order to identify any unusual behaviour that could be potentially damaging to native species.