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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.

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Question reference: S6W-17376

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 April 2023
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 5 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many slurry storage applications were received by the Agri-Environment Climate Scheme, prior to applications closing on 24 March 2023.

Question reference: S6W-17477

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 5 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Scotland-relevant findings in the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization publication, Report of the Third NASCO Performance Review, published in March 2023.

The Third NASCO Performance Review was carried out to evaluate the functioning and effectiveness of NASCO and to identify areas where improvements are needed to strengthen the Organisation, and to enhance the implementation of the NASCO Convention, and it’s Resolutions, Agreements, and Guidelines. The report of the independent review panel will be considered by the Contracting Parties to NASCO at its 40 th Annual Meeting in June 2023.

Question reference: S6W-16968

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 5 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the NatureScot Research Report 1313, Teaching, learning and play in the outdoors: a survey of provision in Scotland in 2022, published on 30 March 2023.

Scottish Ministers note this report, welcoming the very positive evidence of significant progress with outdoor learning in early learning but noting the reduction in access to outdoor learning experiences in primary. We have been working intensively with the outdoor education sector and relevant partners, and will continue to do so, to promote the educational value of outdoor education for both early years and school years education, and to provide schools, nurseries and local authorities with the guidance and agency to effectively take learning outside.

Officials will engage with Nature Scot, Education Scotland and the research team to consider the detailed recommendations from the report, with a particular focus on how it can guide implementation of the government’s strengthened action plan on Learning for Sustainability which will be published in the coming weeks.

Question reference: S6W-16821

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 5 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many miles of hedgerow have been (a) reinstated and (b) planted through schemes such as the Agri-Environment Climate Scheme, in each year for which data is available.

The Scottish Government supports and funds the creation and restoration of hedgerows in Scotland through the Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) and the Agri Environment Climate Scheme (AECS).

A breakdown of the total miles of hedgerows reinstated and planted through NRF is not routinely collected and any information about hedgerows is gathered under a more general ‘habitat’ metric, therefore this data cannot be provided.

The total miles of hedgerow that have been reinstated and planted through AECS, in each year, is set out in the following table. There was no hedgerow creation in 2022 as the restricted round in 2021 did not include the hedgerow options.

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020		2021		2023
Planted - Creation of hedgerows (miles)	41	43	57	64	99	3		79
Reinstated - Restoration of existing hedgerows (miles)	3	5	6	9	7	1		4

Please note, the figures above are what was committed to through AECS contracts. This capital item’s unit of measurement is linear metres, and the conversion rate used was 1 metre = 0.00062137 miles.

Question reference: S6W-16831

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2023
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 4 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many tasers are currently available for use by Police Scotland officers.

Question reference: S6W-17600

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-16058 by Elena Whitham on 19 April 2023, whether it can provide an estimate of the number of people treated by ear, nose and throat specialists for conditions caused by the delivery and absorption of drugs through the nasal cavity route, in any year for which data is available across Scotland as a whole.

Question reference: S6W-17436

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 4 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many dogs deemed to be of a banned breed have been lawfully ordered to be destroyed since 2013, broken down by breed.

Question reference: S6W-17418

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 April 2023
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 4 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in 2022, how many disclosures to Police Scotland were made by individuals with a firearm or shotgun certificate regarding the mental health, or other relevant illness, of the licence holder or a family member that might affect their suitability to own a firearm, and in how many cases the firearms were removed from their possession as a result.

Question reference: S6W-17440

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 4 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether there have been any incidents of a banned dog breed causing harm to an individual in Scotland since 2013, and, if so, how many such incidents have occurred.

Question reference: S6W-16465

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2023
Current Status: Answered by Elena Whitham on 4 May 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is, regarding any impact on Scotland, on the UK Government’s proposal to restrict the sale of nitrous oxide.

The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 is reserved legislation so any changes made to the classification of substances (such as nitrous oxide) will affect the whole of the UK. We await the outcome of the UK Government’s consultation into the exemptions which will apply for the legitimate uses of nitrous oxide in medical, industry and food production sectors.

Upon the implementation of the classification of nitrous oxide as a Class C drug, Police Scotland will work with colleagues in UK policing to make sure the law is applied in the same way across the UK.