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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.

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

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Question reference: S4W-02584

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 12 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review the effectiveness of legislation intended to ensure that Scotland complies with its international obligations under the Afro-Eurasian Waterfowl Agreement.

Question reference: S4W-02581

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 12 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines there are to assist police forces in enforcing The Environmental Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2004.

Guidelines on these controls are set out in Protecting Waterfowl from Lead in Wetlands – A Practical Guide to the Lead Shot Regulations in Scotland published jointly by the then Scottish Executive, Scottish Natural Heritage and the British Association of Shooting and Conservation. A link to the guidance follows:

http://www.basc.org.uk/en/utilities/document-summary.cfm/docid/D5C9615C-C762-40F1-8AD9E3509B0B46E2.

Question reference: S4W-02650

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions there have been under the Children (Performances) Regulations 1968 in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S4W-02647

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 12 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason charities created after 1999 cannot receive a water rates exemption.

The Water Services Charges Exemption Scheme was set up as a temporary measure in 2002 to help small organisations that had received relief from water charges on 31 March 1999 make the transition to paying for them. The scheme was subsequently extended and is paid for by other water customers.

Scottish ministers have written to Scottish Water asking them to review the scheme in collaboration with key stakeholders such as the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations with the aim of devising a new scheme that could run from the next regulatory period in 2015.

Question reference: S4W-02648

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 12 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to review the criteria for charities’ exemption from water rates.

Question reference: S4W-02580

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 12 September 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors compliance with The Environmental Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2004.

Question reference: S4O-00178

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the eligibility criteria for exemptions from the payment of water rates.

Question reference: S4W-02285

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 September 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce legislation to increase protection for owners of park homes.

Question reference: S4W-02005

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the recommendation in the report, Relative Value: The experiences of kinship carers using the Scottish CAB service, that “local authorities and the Scottish Government need to recognise that the needs, including the need for financial support, of kinship carers of non looked after children are often the same as the needs of kinship carers of looked after children”.

The Scottish Government recognises that many kinship carers care for children who are not looked after but who also need additional financial and non-financial help. That is why we believe kinship carers should be supported financially by the tax and benefit system first and foremost. We are committed to securing further changes from UK Government to make this happen and have been in regular dialogue with relevant departments.

In addition, when the national Kinship Advice, Outreach and Support Service was launched in March in partnership with Children 1st, “informal kinship carers” were specifically included within its remit. The service can be contacted through Parentline on 0800 028 2233.

Question reference: S4W-02001

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2011
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to regulate the provision of (a) foster and (b) kinship care allowances.