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As of 31 March 2025, Scotland had 164,532 hectares of land designated as Green Belt, according to the latest Improvement Service spatial data.This represents approximately 2.1% of Scotland’s total land area.We do not hold information on changes in the total area designated as Green Belt between 31 March 2024 and 31 March 2025. S6W-41177
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether Scottish Water will publish an update to its 2024 sewage overflow data to include data from event duration monitors that have been installed as part of the Improving Urban Waters Routemap and that were not included in the original publication in March 2025.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on what proportion of private landlords who exited the sector in 2024-25 were small investors with only one property.
This government has overseen a long period of sustained improvement in S4 Leaver positive initial destinations from 78.4% in 2010 to 91.9% in 2024. We are however not complacent and recognise the proportion of S4 leavers in positive initial destinations has decreased by 0.8 percentage points between 2023 and 2024.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government when it will share the results of the information gathering exercise by NHS boards into local stoma care services, stoma specialist nurse coverage and any gaps in stoma services across the country, as announced by the Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health in November 2023 and shared with the Scottish Executive Nurse Directors in July and November 2024. The results of the information gathering exercise on stoma care were presented at Scottish Executive Nurse Directors’ meetings on 5 July and 22 November 2024, informing NHS Boards of overall findings.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what the survival rate of farmed salmon on marine farms was in 2024. The Scottish Government does not collect data on fish survival by calendar year.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 February 2025
I had a productive meeting with members of the A77 Campaign Group on the 21 November 2024. Following that my officials from Transport Scotland last met with the A77 Campaign Group on 5 December 2024 as part of a regular series of meetings that they have with the group.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 February 2025
Therefore, they cannot be recalled back into custody, as there are no conditions attached to their release.In the last 5 years, no prisoners have been recalled to custody following their release under either the 2020 COVID 19 Early Release Scheme or the 2024 Emergency Early Release Regulations.