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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: S5W-27197

Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 30 January 2020
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 18 February 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to introducing grants for riparian schemes on salmon rivers.

The Forestry Grant Scheme already supports planting native broadleaved riparian woodland in a range of situations and can be used to provide cooling shade and improve the habitat along salmon rivers.

Since 2016 the Forestry Grant Scheme has supported the planting of 514 native broadleaved riparian woodlands.

Furthermore, all tree planting and restocking proposals must comply with the UK Forestry Standard, which promotes an integrated catchment management approach and places particular emphasis on riparian woodland and its role in protecting and restoring the freshwater environment.

Question reference: S5O-04153

Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 February 2020

To ask the Scottish Government when the Scottish Local Authorities Remuneration Committee last met.

Question reference: S5O-04105

Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2020
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 February 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to provide full DNA traceability to the Scotch Beef brand.

Question reference: S5O-04056

Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings of the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data linkage project report.

Question reference: S5W-26785

Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Fergus Ewing on 19 December 2019

To ask the Scottish Government for an update on the Agri-Environment Climate Scheme (AECS) 2019 application round.

AECS is funded in part from domestic funds as well as from European Union funding. As a direct result of delays imposed by the postponement of the UK budget earlier this year for the General Election, we are unable to determine the domestic budget available for the 2019 round yet.

This means that while the assessment of all 2019 applications has been completed and those applicants that are potentially eligible for funding consideration are now identified, we are unable to confirm fully at this time whether those eligible applications will actually receive contract offers.

As a direct result of the UK Government actions in postponing the UK budget, all SG directorates have encountered difficulties in confirming their own budgets for spend both in the short and medium term. AECS is not immune to this.

We are writing to each of the 633 eligible applicants to explain the situation and that due to UK government actions we are unable to determine the budget for the scheme as yet. It is our intention to complete the process as soon as we know the available budget for the coming year.

Question reference: S5O-03977

Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government when it last discussed the Falkirk and Grangemouth Investment Zone with the UK Government.

Question reference: S5O-03920

Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 December 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the latest teacher number statistics, and what steps it is taking to retain teachers at all levels of education.

Question reference: S5F-03789

Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 December 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 December 2019

To ask the First Minister how the Scottish Government is working with international partners to tackle climate change.

Question reference: S5O-03891

Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 December 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 December 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the development of future trade policy post-Brexit.

Question reference: S5T-01907

Asked by: Angus MacDonald, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 December 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 December 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what assistance it is providing to the multi-agency approach to the major gas outage affecting over 8,000 households in Falkirk district.