Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are claiming housing benefit in each local authority area in the current financial year; and what were the figures for the same period in (a) 1974; (b) 1979; (c) 1988 and (d) 1996.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers in each force area are normally available for duty on the beat during the current financial year and what were the equivalent figures for each of the past eight years.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive how many full time equivalent (a) bank; (b) agency; and (c) contract nurses were employed, and at what cost, by each health board area in each of the last 10 years.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive how many council houses have been sold under the right-to-buy legislation since 1979 in each district council area (up until 31 March 1996) and in each unitary local authority area (since 1 April 1996) in Scotland.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged over 18 are enrolled in adult education courses in each local authority area for the academic year of 1999-2000 and what were the equivalent figures for each of the past five years.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers in each force area are designated as community beat officers in the current financial year and what were the equivalent figures in each of the past five years.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the expected total cost of Scottish Executive Ministerial salaries for the current financial year and each of the next three financial years and to break the cost down for each Minister.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made or intends to make any representations to Her Majesty’s Government in regard to the number and allocation of staff to be employed in the Scotland Office and the remit of each of its departments and, if it has, to provide details of such representations.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Presiding Officer to specify the total cost of MSPs’ salaries and allowances for the current financial year and each of the next three financial years.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Presiding Officer to specify the total expected running cost of the Parliament for the current financial year and for each of the next three financial years and to disaggregate the cost by committee and by directorate.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers are employed in each force area for the current financial year and what were the equivalent figures in each of the past eight years.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the expected total cost of Scottish Executive Ministers’ special advisers and press officers for the current financial year and each of the next three financial years, and to specify the number of special advisers and press officers, how many are attached to each department and the salary of each.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive to specify its estimated total running cost for the current financial year and each of the next three financial years and to disaggregate the cost by department.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the expected total cost of its press and public relations operations for the current financial year and each of the next three financial years.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether an official residence is to be acquired for the Secretary of State for Scotland and, if so, to specify the expected total cost to the Scottish Consolidated Fund of acquiring such a residence.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether any of the cost of renting office accommodation for the Scotland Office is being met from its block grant.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what official meetings have taken place between the First Minister and the Secretary of State for Scotland and between the Minister for Finance and the Secretary of State for Scotland to discuss the expected cost to the Scottish Consolidated Fund of establishing and running the Scotland Office.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the expected total cost to the Scottish Consolidated Fund of the Scotland Office in the current financial year and each of the next three financial years.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive which ministers have so far met their counterparts from the Cabinet of the National Assembly for Wales. (S1O-305)
Keith Raffan: Would the First Minister agree that the more contact we have with members of the Welsh Assembly the better, and does he further welcome the initial steps that have been taken today by Dafydd Wigley and me towards the formation of an all-party Scottish Parliament-Welsh Assembly group?