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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 5 July 2025
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Question reference: S1W-20835

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 10 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 24 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4268 by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2001, whether it will make representations to the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment and the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission seeking a scientific opinion as to whether the differences in height between the genetically modified oil-seed rape and the normal oil-seed rape in the trial at Roskil farm on the Black Isle could adversely affect the comparison of biodiversity between the two.

Question reference: S1W-20833

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 10 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 24 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4268 by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2001, why there is a difference in heights between the genetically modified oil-seed rape and the normal oil-seed rape it is being compared with in the trial at Roskil farm on the Black Isle.

Question reference: S1W-20735

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, when considering licence applications to kill or remove eider ducks in order to protect mussel farms, what assessment it gives to alternative measures to protect mussel farms and how it determines whether these alternatives are successful.

Question reference: S1W-20731

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many licence applications to kill or remove eider ducks in order to protect mussel farms have been (a) received from and (b) granted to (i) the Shetland Islands, (ii) the Orkney Islands, (iii) Argyll and Bute, (iv) the Western Isles and (v) the Highland Council area in each year from 1998 to date.

Question reference: S1W-20733

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures for site inspection and local consultation are used in the determination of whether to issue licences to kill or remove eider ducks for the protection of mussel farms.

Question reference: S1W-20734

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what tests it applies in relation to licence applications to kill or remove eider ducks to protect mussel farms and what scientific advice it has received as to determining the level of damage which could be caused to such farms.

Question reference: S1W-20736

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what the latest estimate is of the eider duck population; how many and what proportion of these are found in (a) the Shetland Islands, (b) the Orkney Islands, (c) Argyll and Bute, (d) the Western Isles and (e) the Highland Council area, and what the local population changes in each of these areas have been over the past 25 years.

Question reference: S1W-20732

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has conducted any site visits or local consultations in regard to licences to kill or remove eider ducks in (a) the Shetland Islands, (b) the Orkney Islands, (c) Argyll and Bute, (d) the Western Isles and (e) the Highland Council area during 2001 or whether any such visits or consultations are planned in the next six months.

Question reference: S1W-20737

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what species of eider duck are found in (a) the Shetland Islands, (b) the Orkney Islands, (c) Argyll and Bute, (d) the Western Isles and (e) the Highland Council area.

Question reference: S1O-04268

  • Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2001
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to any difference in growth between the genetically modified (GM) oil-seed rape and the normal oil-seed rape with which it is being compared at the GM field trial at Roskil farm on the Black Isle.