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: S4W-26998
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 28 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has concluded the criteria for compensating netsmen who do not receive a licence to kill wild salmon.
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Question reference: S4W-26999
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 28 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the level of compensation likely to be needed to close mixed fishery netting businesses as part of the wild salmon kill licence strategy.
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Question reference: S4W-26992
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 28 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how an annual sustainable harvest of wild salmon will be calculated.
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Question reference: S4W-27000
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 28 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that there is a difference between the hereditary rights of active and dormant fishing stations in relation to possible levels of compensation regarding wild salmon fishing.
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Question reference: S4W-26997
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 28 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many licences to kill wild salmon are expected to be issued in 2016.
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Question reference: S4O-04651
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2015
- Current Status: Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Government how Scotland’s traditional arts are funded.
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Question reference: S4W-27335
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 17 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to address (a) increasing numbers of and (b) increasingly dangerous seagulls.
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Question reference: S4O-04622
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2015
- Current Status: Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Government what evidence it has that orthopaedic specialisms are meeting the needs of patients.
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Question reference: S4W-26995
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 16 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many salmon anglers have killed on rivers in each year since 2010.
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Question reference: S4W-27334
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 15 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what best practice was taken forward following the summit that it convened on urban seagulls in 2008.