To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has been notified by Dumfries and Galloway Council of a planning application to alter and extend the waste disposal facility and to construct a leachate treatment plant at Aucheninnes landfill site, Dalbeattie, affecting bog bush-crickets in that location, which Scottish Natural Heritage indicate may result in extinction of bog bush-crickets within Scotland. The planning application for the Aucheninnes site extension was notified to the Scottish ministers by Dumfries and Galloway Council on 27 November.