To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13048 by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 December 2017, what its response is to reports that beavers are being killed in large numbers in parts of Tayside and, in light of this, what progress it is making in bringing forward the Scottish Statutory Instrument to provide protected status, and by what date this will be (a) laid and (b) come into force.