This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Those discussions provide the opportunity for COSLA to raise areas of priority for local government with me and we jointly consider what support the Scottish Government can potentially provide - discussion on this specific issue have not taken place to date. It is for individual councils to plan for the operation of services, including contingency planning...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it expects to announce new policies to support its biodiversity strategy, which was published on 13 December 2022.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 November 2022
Where a property is removed from the Valuation Roll, the ratepayer will be entitled to a refund of any overpaid rates back to the effective date of deletion. S6W-11195
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government on what specific date it will announce the delivery timeline for the dualling of the A96 Inverness to Nairn (including Nairn Bypass) scheme.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 October 2022
The programme board has met five times since its inception, on the following dates: 17 March 2021, 08 July 2021, 05 November 2021, 01 June 2022 and 06 September 2022.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 September 2022
We recognise that there are specific issues for the farming and crofting sector so we have, through a change to legislation, brought forward annual farm payment dates so that payments will begin at their earliest ever point.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many Early Cancer Diagnosis Centres have been opened to date, and how many new medical and nursing staff have been recruited to work in these centres.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 August 2022
The process of gathering cull returns is ongoing and NatureScot continues to gather returns for the last three years. The most up to date figures are captured in the table below and will be available on the NatureScot website later this month.
The need for Low Emission Zones (LEZs) is for individual local authorities to consider based on specific air quality parameters within their respective areas. To date no LEZ proposals have been submitted for Ministerial approval by Highland Council.