Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what key tests are applied before an agricultural licence is granted to kill buzzards.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is considering changing the key tests applied to the granting of agricultural licences to kill buzzards.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what alternatives to killing buzzards it is considering in relation to changes to agricultural licences.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that stakeholders were given adequate time to respond to its drafts of guidance on how to apply for licences to kill protected birds for the protection of game birds released in order to be shot and how the relevant timescale complied with its guidance on the management of consultations.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what changes were made, following consultation, to its drafts of guidance on how to apply for licences to kill protected birds for the protection of game birds released in order to be shot; how these changes related to consultees’ comments; what analysis it did in relation to the comments and changes, and how this approach complied with its guidance on the...
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what the conservation status of the goshawk is in Scotland.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what the conservation status of the sparrowhawk is in Scotland.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that buzzards are subject to deliberate ill-treatment in areas where pheasants are released for shooting.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive, should large numbers of licence applications to kill protected predatory birds meet guidance requirements for approval, what contingency plans exist to prevent a reduction in the population of the protected species being killed.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive, should large numbers of licence applications to kill protected predatory birds meet guidance requirements for approval, what contingency plans exist to prevent a reduction in the capacity of the population to continue its expansion to previous natural levels.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what contingency plans exist should evidence of illegal killing arise in or near sites subject to applications for licences to kill predatory birds in order to protect game birds released to be shot.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of released pheasant poults survive to such an age that they are shot as part of a commercial operation.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates it is aware of regarding the total number of pheasant poults released each year.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what the average value is of a pheasant poult at release age.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what average income shooting businesses receive per pheasant shot by their clients.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-33201 by Richard Lochhead on 30 April 2010, what particular species of pheasant it considers to be naturally occurring in Scotland and what the taxonomic basis is for this view.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers (a) biodiversity and (b) the natural heritage to have intrinsic value.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive whether construction work on the new Dalkeith Medical Centre has started and when it will open for patients.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines exist for the management of public and stakeholder consultations.
Rhona Brankin: To ask the Scottish Executive when the Midlothian community hospital will open and what services it will offer. (S3O-10836)