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.
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To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address dog theft.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many, (b) at what location and (c) on what dates stakeholder events were held in 2018 to support farmers meet the requirements of the ban on incineration of farm plastic waste.
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out or plans of the feral cat population, and what action it is taking to manage it.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to expanding waste data capture protocols to include resource inputs, waste arising and waste fate regarding both regulated sites and material exemptions.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of it closing to new applicants across the rest of the UK from March 2019, whether it will retain the feed-in-tariffs scheme.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential value of fats, oils and grease discarded into the sewer system as a bioresource, and of potential resource capture mechanisms for these.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had regarding widening circular economic activity in the treatment of sewage sludge after the current treatment contracts end.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reviewing the regulations regarding the co-digestion of sewage sludge.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18767 by Roseanna Cunningham on 20 September 2018, what consideration was given to the results of the 2012-13 absorbent hygiene product collection pilot to ensure that these products were recycled in Scotland, rather than incinerated or landfilled.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government what metrics it uses to assess the (a) environmental and (b) economic impact of activities and projects funded through Community Resources Network Scotland.