Questions and answers
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
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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Question reference: S5W-02222
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 15 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many kill licences for fishing have been issued in Dumfries and Galloway since January 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-02223
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 15 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether any fisheries legislation introduced in 2015-16 will affect net and coble fishing and, if so, which.
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Question reference: S5O-00114
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2016
- Current Status: Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on the creation of new national parks and what consideration it has given to creating one in Galloway.
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Question reference: S5W-01731
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 26 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action its Agriculture, Food and Rural Communities Directorate takes to (a) identify and (b) support claimants who have dyslexia or poor literacy, and whether it takes these into account when errors in record keeping are discovered.
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Question reference: S5W-01732
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-05555 by Shona Robison on 11 February 2016 (Official Report, c. 2), whether it will provide an update on what action it is taking to increase the number of GPs in rural areas, including the incentives that are made available to rural practices.
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Question reference: S5W-01730
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 15 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that inspections of claimants by its Agriculture, Food and Rural Communities Directorate and any subsequent issue of sanctions for non-compliance are carried out on a legal basis.
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Question reference: S5O-00004
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 June 2016
- Current Status: Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Government when it will review the referral pathway that results in cancer patients in Stranraer having to travel to Edinburgh via Dumfries rather than to cancer services in Glasgow.