Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to increase staffing levels of the Procurator Fiscal service in order to reduce the amount of time spent by police officers waiting to appear as witnesses in criminal trials.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide a list of the members of the Scottish Valuation and Rating Council, and whether it intends to appoint a representative from the Federation of Small Businesses, the Forum of Private Business, and the Chambers of Commerce to the Committee.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to seek evidence from other countries as to the effect which bans on tobacco advertising and sponsorship have on tobacco consumption.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to introduce a ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to publish the distribution list used to circulate Scottish Office News Release 0553/99.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to place a toll booth on any single track road and, if it does, whether it will be able to ensure that this will not breach health and safety standards or road traffic regulations.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to introduce road tolls for the Fort William to Mallaig road and, if so, at what point or points would the toll booth or booths be placed.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends in future to publish the rate of return received by private sector investors in respect of each contract for a private finance initiative project on which public money is spent.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will accept the recommendation of Chantrey Vellacott DFK that the rate of return should be published in all PFI contracts.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review the law relating to sequestration in Scotland.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to upgrade the A82, particularly the section between Tarbet and Inverarnan, and whether any upgrading would be affected by the proposed designation of the area as part of the Lomond and Trossachs National Park.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an estimate of the proposed annual expenditure on the Lomond & Trossachs National Park, whether it will state from what source this annual expenditure will be funded and whether it proposes that any part of the expenditure will be met from road tolls and, if so, whether residents within the proposed National Park will require to pay these...
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends that the proposed policy of road tolls will apply to motorways, trunk routes and any other roads, and if so, whether the proposed tolls will apply to all roads within each category.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to upgrade the A95.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to upgrade the remaining single track sections of the A830 Fort William to Mallaig Road.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review the practice in relation to advising the victim of a reported crime of the reasons no proceedings are taken, when that is the decision of the Crown.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to increase the monetary limit of £750 applying to small claims actions in Scotland.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to grant the Scottish Legal Aid Board competence to make interest payments on overdue accounts under the Scottish Legal Aid schemes and whether it intends to authorise ex gratia payments where legal aid or advice and assistance accounts are not settled within 30 days.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will arrange for the names of those persons sitting at the tables at the rear of the Assembly Hall chamber to be printed on name cards along with a description of their position.
Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide an estimate of the impact on employment in the paper industry in Scotland of the proposed greenhouse gas emission tax.