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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: S4W-08879

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has made of the tourism value to rural Scotland of a new landscape designation.

Question reference: S4W-08877

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has set a date for completion of Scottish Natural Heritage’s updated wild land mapping.

Question reference: S4W-08565

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what its targets are for growing the meat products industry.

Question reference: S4W-08563

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support the food and drink industries.

The Scottish Government works with a range of public and private sector partners to support the food and drink industries through our National Food and Drink Policy. “Recipe for Success” sets out the holistic approach we are adopting to support this successful sector, including: supporting the growth of our food and drink industry; enhancing our international reputation as a land of food and drink; educating people about our food from plough to plate; and developing the skills of our food and drink workforce.

Question reference: S4W-08564

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what (a) importance it places on and (b) support it provides to the meat (i) production and (ii) processing industries.

Question reference: S4W-08567

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how significant the meat products industry is in the context of its strategy for the food and drink industries.

Question reference: S4W-08566

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government whether the convention to debate the integration of some services with post offices referred to by the Minister for Local Government and Planning on 2 February 2012 (Official Report, c. 6070) has taken place and, if so, what the outcome was.

Question reference: S4W-08568

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people are employed in the meat products industry in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow region and (c) the Glasgow Shettleston constituency.

The latest available data on the number of people employed in the meats products industry is taken from the Business Register and Employment Survey, which shows that in 2010 there were 6,600 people employees in the “Processing and preserving of meat and production of meat products” sector in Scotland. There were 600 employed in this sector in Glasgow City.

The number of employees in the Glasgow Shettleston Constituency area is below the threshold allowed for publication and therefore disclosive so cannot be provided.

Question reference: S4W-08570

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many meat product factories there are in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow region and (c) the Glasgow Shettleston constituency.

Question reference: S4W-08575

Asked by: Drew Smith, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met representatives of (a) employers and (b) trades unions in the shipbuilding industry and what issues were discussed.

Ministers regularly meet with employers and representatives at various visits and events during the year, and discuss issues of importance to individual companies. The Cabinet Secretary also regularly meets with all Industry Leadership Group Chairs, including the Aerospace, Defence and Marine Chair.

The Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions wrote to the Scottish Government on 22 June 2012 seeking a meeting with officials, which has been agreed.