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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S4W-19566

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19216 by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2014, whether ministers have been advised of the outcomes of each consultation meeting with stakeholders that they did not attend on the establishment of a separate media regulator in an independent Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-19563

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19216 by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2014, for what reasons the answer did not refer to discussions it has had with representatives of Channel 4 and Channel 5.

Question reference: S4W-19562

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19216 by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2014, for what reasons it was unable to provide a list of stakeholders that it consulted about establishing a separate media regulator in an independent Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-19564

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19216 by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2014, what record it holds of stakeholders that it consulted on establishing a separate media regulator in an independent Scotland prior to publication of its white paper and whether it will publish this.

Question reference: S4W-19569

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19216 by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2014, on what occasions in the last 12 months ministers have reported to the Parliament on their engagement with broadcasters on the formation of policy on the establishment of a separate media regulator in an independent Scotland.

Question reference: S4W-19570

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19216 by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2014, whether ministers have been updated on dialogue between officials and representatives of broadcasters consulted on proposals for a separate media regulator in an independent Scotland in the last six months.

Question reference: S4W-19565

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19216 by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2014, which meetings with stakeholders whom it consulted about establishing a separate media regulator in an independent Scotland prior to publication of its white paper were attended by ministers.

Question reference: S4W-19567

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19216 by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2014, whether it will publish the names of BBC representatives whom it consulted on broadcasting policy prior to the publication of its white paper on independence.

Question reference: S4W-19568

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 March 2014

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19216 by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2014, whether it consulted Channel 4 on the continuation of commercial broadcast licences in an independent Scotland.

<>It is longstanding Scottish Government policy that commercial broadcast licences should be continued in an independent Scotland, as set out, for example, by the First Minister in his speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on 24 August 2012, the text of which may be found at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Speeches/ed-international-television-festival. As this policy preserves the status quo there is no cause for consultation.

Question reference: S4W-19739

Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 14 February 2014
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 28 February 2014

To ask the Scottish Government what EU state aid issues arise from the delivery of the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grant Scheme, particularly in relation to assistance for ditching and draining.

Following the European Commission’s acceptance of EU Regulation No. 1310/2013, on the transitional provisions on support for rural development, there are no state aids issues arising from the delivery of the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants Scheme in 2014. Earlier draft versions of the European Union’s transitional provisions on support for rural development omitted some capital works, such as drainage. With the passing of EU Regulation No. 1310/2013 that omission no longer applies.