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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: S6W-38074

Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2025
Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 10 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to publish a dedicated strategy for scaling up ecosystem-based approaches to climate mitigation, and, if so, when such a strategy will be released, and how it will be resourced.

The Scottish Government has no plans to publish a separate dedicated strategy for scaling up ecosystem-based approaches to climate mitigation, as these issues are addressed in our Biodiversity Strategy and Climate Change Plans.

Our Biodiversity Strategy and Climate Change Plans include policies to develop healthy and restored ecosystems with landscape scale nature-based initiatives, contributing to our nature and climate targets. This is an effective framework for policy, and we have recently announced that Scotland's Peatland ACTION partnership has put 14,860 hectares of degraded peatlands on the road to recovery last year, which represents a new record in one year.

Question reference: S6W-38099

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2025
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 10 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what studies for cover crop viability it plans to support, in light of the recommendation in the Project Willow report.

Question reference: S6W-37935

Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 10 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it can create a strategic Bitcoin reserve, and, if so, whether it will consider the creation of such a reserve.

Question reference: S6W-38069

Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2025
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 10 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to update the specification and guidance for the provision of environmental control equipment.

Question reference: S6W-38064

Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 June 2025
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 10 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to section 3(1)a of the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022, when (a) the proposed plan will be laid before the Scottish Parliament and (b) the expiry of the 60-day period will fall.

Question reference: S6W-38215

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 June 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 10 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-35787 and S6W-27244 by Jim Fairlie on 26 March 2025 and 13 May 2024 respectively, whether it will provide an update on how many (a) journeys have been made and (b) young people have now received a free bus pass through the Young Persons' (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel scheme, broken down by local authority area, based on the latest available data.

The following table shows a) the number of Young Persons’ Free Bus Travel Scheme cardholders broken down to local authority level as of 31 May 2025, and b) the number of journeys, broken down by local authority, made through the Young Persons’ Free Bus Travel Scheme since its launch in January 2022 up to 31 May 2025. Journeys are based on the local authority in which the card was issued, therefore some journeys will have been undertaken out with the local authority area.

Local Authority	Cardholders	Journeys
Aberdeen City	32,890	12,965,715
Aberdeenshire	39,462	6,422,788
Angus Council	15,266	3,098,694
Argyll & Bute	10,137	1,766,719
City of Edinburgh	90,476	46,677,709
Clackmannanshire	5,793	1,062,834
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	3,234	321,498
Dumfries and Galloway	16,725	3,106,846
Dundee City	24,377	10,008,686
East Ayrshire	18,402	5,586,745
East Dunbartonshire	15,052	3,012,501
East Lothian	17,579	6,438,478
East Renfrewshire	16,090	2,966,398
Falkirk	21,162	3,295,980
Fife	62,111	17,636,651
Glasgow City	94,983	29,954,613
Highland	26,002	4,707,157
Inverclyde	11,675	3,385,868
Midlothian	14,901	5,983,790
Moray	12,049	1,880,556
North Ayrshire	20,684	6,272,609
North Lanarkshire	52,612	9,089,543
Orkney Islands	2,587	316,030
Perth & Kinross	20,255	5,065,882
Renfrewshire	26,335	7,508,699
Scottish Borders	14,428	2,976,138
Shetland Islands	3,551	608,594
South Ayrshire	13,508	3,242,870
South Lanarkshire	51,409	8,284,182
Stirling	12,339	2,811,432
West Dunbartonshire	14,478	3,921,799
West Lothian	25,559	5,382,597
Total	806,111	225,760,601

Question reference: S6T-02570

Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the removal of dangerous building cladding, in light of the recent publications by Scotland’s Cladding Remediation Programme.

Question reference: S6T-02583

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports of claims by a whistleblower at Police Scotland that officers are being “coerced” into logging individuals in line with their gender identity, even in serious sexual assault cases.

Question reference: S6T-02586

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 June 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to ensure the connectivity of local communities in the west of Scotland, in light of reports that over 400 Stagecoach drivers in Ayr, Arran, Ardrossan and Kilmarnock have begun industrial action until 21 July.

Question reference: S6F-04167

Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 June 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 June 2025

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on whether the home leave for prisoners system is operating appropriately and as intended.