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 for what reason it stated that the terms of reference of the Zero Waste Scotland landfill ban and infrastructure capacity report were "incomplete" and "under final review" on 19 June 2024, in correspondence with Friends of the Earth Scotland in response to freedom of information request FOI/202400417634, in light of it having stated in earlier correspondence on 3 May 2024 that the "outputs and recommendations of this work are currently under consideration by the Scottish Government".
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its previous announcement that it plans to align with other UK administrations to deliver a UK-wide ban on single-use vapes, whether it expects that this ban will come into effect from 1 April 2025.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-29916 by Gillian Martin on 30 September 2024, whether it will provide details of the work that (a) it, (b) Zero Waste Scotland and (c) SEPA has carried out on digital waste tracking since 2010, including a breakdown of (i) how much has been spent on and (ii) the staff resource allocations to such projects.
To ask the Scottish Government what work is being carried out to (a) expand the red-only squirrel areas of Scotland and (b) facilitate grey squirrel control.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-27871 by Gillian Martin on 7 June 2024, when it will publish Zero Waste Scotland's landfill ban and infrastructure capacity report.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the then Minister for Climate Action during the stage 3 proceedings for the Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill on 25 June 2024 that the Scottish Government "intend[s] to consider targets for separate waste streams and carbon-based metrics", and that this "approach is based on the Climate Change Committee’s recommendations”, what recommendations the minister was referring to, and where they were made.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its work to support the introduction of a ban on biodegradable municipal waste going to landfill.
To ask the Scottish Government what its current recycling targets are for (a) all and (b) household waste.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-29523 by Alasdair Allan on 16 September 2024, how it accurately monitors the total installed solar capacity, of all types, approved by local authorities.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made towards developing an indicative declining cap on residual waste treatment capacity, as outlined in the Independent Review of the Role of Incineration in the Waste Hierarchy in Scotland.