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: S6W-06724
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 7 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when Skills Development Scotland will produce a new Skills Action Plan for Rural Scotland for 2022 and beyond.
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Question reference: S6W-06305
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 3 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to publish its latest review into snaring, which, under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, was due to be completed by December 2021.
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Question reference: S6O-00838
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is offering communities and organisations across Scotland to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
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Question reference: S6W-06227
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what specific support will be offered to crofters to increase uptake of agri-environmental climate funding schemes.
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Question reference: S6W-06006
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Short-term Lets) Order 2022 and Town and Country Planning (Short-term Let Control Areas) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 being approved, whether overall responsibility for oversight of businesses in the short-term letting sector will (a) move to its Housing and Social Justice Directorate and (b) remain within the overall responsibility of the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy.
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Question reference: S6W-06285
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 23 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many boats are (a) licensed and (b) registered in the Red Rocks and Longay Urgent Marine Protected Area.
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Question reference: S6W-06159
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 22 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government to what extent the (a) work on the forthcoming Scottish Biodiversity Strategy is being influenced by the COP15 process and (b) new strategy will directly tackle the five drivers of biodiversity loss, as identified by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
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Question reference: S6F-00816
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 February 2022
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to the recent report on the Scottish Crofting Commission.
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Question reference: S6W-06224
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 21 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to promote crofting at SRUC institutions and secondary school level.
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Question reference: S6W-06223
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 18 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the action it is taking to encourage and support new entrants into crofting, and how much funding has been made available for this purpose in each year since 2016.