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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

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-40087

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 25 August 2025
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answer expected on 22 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how it supports local authorities to establish new allotments.

Question reference: S6W-40100

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 25 August 2025
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answer expected on 22 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether NatureScot produced an environmental impact assessment prior to its recent decision to grant licences for the release of six beaver families at two sites in the River Beauly catchment, and, if so, whether it will provide details of this.

Question reference: S6W-40095

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 25 August 2025
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answer expected on 22 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many hectares of land were considered to be fully organic in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S6W-39817

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 25 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the total cost has been of staff redundancy payments for people who worked in its international offices in each year since 2021, broken down by office.

Question reference: S6W-39906

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 25 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many young people have been matched with an adopter via Scotland’s Adoption Register in each year since 2021.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

Scotland’s Adoption Register (SAR) publishes quarterly statistics and annual reports on the number of matches of children and young people with adoptive parents through SAR on their website.

Their Annual Report for 2024-2025, shows that, through SAR, there were 81 matches of children and young people with adoptive parents in 2020-2021, 71 matches in 2021-2022, 61 matches in 2022-2023, 62 matches in 2023-2024, and 35 matches in 2024-2025. SAR does not publish data on matches by age group.

Question reference: S6W-40042

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2025
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government in what ways it supports farmers to tackle seasonal mastitis rates among cattle.

Question reference: S6W-40045

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the total cost of any expenses for members of The Promise Oversight Board has been in each year since it was founded.

Question reference: S6W-40046

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government when the Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise last met with The Promise Oversight Board.

Question reference: S6W-40041

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25279 by Kaukab Stewart on 4 March 2024, what information it has on which organisations received funding from its financial contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency; how much funding each organisation received, and what it was spent on.

Question reference: S6W-40043

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government in what ways it is supporting Argyll and Bute Council in relation to the reported closure of the B8035 at Gribun Rocks as a result of rock falls.