Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what contribution it will make to Social Network Payments to prevent any closures of sub-Post Offices in rural and deprived urban areas.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what contribution it will make to the establishment of a fund to support Post Offices and their retail facilities in deprived urban areas.
Adam Ingram: I welcome this debate, which is really about the urgent need to integrate the south-west of Scotland into the European economy. Both the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Office before it demonstrated a lack of vision and understanding by failing to recognise the economic potential of the Loch Ryan corridor and the link with Ireland. To be frank, there can be no excuse for the failure to...
Adam Ingram: That is the challenge that we face and to which the Executive must rise, to secure the future of our ferry ports for crossings to Ireland and to strengthen Scotland's links with Ireland for the mutual benefit of our sister nations.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent since 1 July 1999 on employing Tactica Solutions.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive which companies other than Tactica Solutions it has employed to design and produce Scottish Executive publications.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a contract with Tactica Solutions for the design and production of its publications and, if so, what criteria were used to select Tactica Solutions and how long the contract is for.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has allocated to voluntary organisations providing support to children and adults suffering from attention deficiency disorder and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it gave to the needs of children and adults with attention deficiency disorder and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in any reviews of provisions for people with special educational needs or learning disabilities.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has applied or intends to apply for a four-year extension to the dates by which the targets for the reduction of the amount of waste being landfilled set in the Landfill Directive (1999/31/EC) require to be met and what justification has been or would be given for any such request.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what the 1995 baseline landfill tonnage figure is for each local authority area and how much waste has been landfilled in each local authority area in each year since 1995.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive when area waste plans will be published and what the current state of readiness of each area is to draw down funds from the Strategic Waste Fund.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive which areas have applied for funding from the £3 million made available through the Strategic Waste Fund in the current financial year to reduce the amount of waste landfilled and whether it will provide details of all approved projects, including the amount of funding allocated to each.
Adam Ingram: We on the SNP benches offer no opposition to the general principles of the Budget (Scotland) (No 2) Bill. However, we would wish the Executive to lodge amendments at stage 3 to take account of the Parliament's will to fund free personal care for the elderly, as demonstrated in the debate this morning and, we hope, in the forthcoming vote. As Angus MacKay indicated, this is the first budget...
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7260 by Mr Jack McConnell on 4 October 2000, how much each Scottish Executive publication produced from August 2000 to date cost to produce.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive when it will answer parliamentary questions S1W-10967, S1W-10968, S1W-10969 and S1W-10970.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make the route action plan study carried out on the A77 between Ayr and Stranraer in 1994 available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Adam Ingram: Although I welcome the bill as an improvement on the current arrangements for financing higher education, it is also a major disappointment, because the recommendations of the Cubie committee have been cherry-picked rather than implemented in full. It is even more disappointing that the concept of an endowment foundation, as laid out by Cubie, has been hijacked and transmogrified into a...
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has issued to health boards on the diagnosis and treatment of children and adults with attention deficiency disorder and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what information is being provided to health professionals and, in particular, GPs on the diagnosis and treatment of attention deficiency disorder and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
