Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are currently unemployed in each constituency area and what were the equivalent figures for each of the last five years.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of three and four year olds in each local authority area are enrolled to attend nursery education provision for the academic year 1999-2000.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list for each health board area the waiting time being advised to patients for consultancy in (a) ear, nose and throat; (b) trauma and orthopaedic surgery; (c) general surgery; (d) ophthalmology; and (e) gynaecology.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are enrolled in (a) part time and (b) full time further education courses during 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 homes unfit for human habitation there are in each local authority area and what plans it has to reduce the number.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what are the total capital receipts arising from the sale of council houses since 1979 for each local authority in Scotland.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people on the housing waiting list of each local authority in Scotland: (a) are waiting for a transfer; (b) are homeless; (c) are waiting for elderly persons’ accommodation, and (d) live in houses.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an estimate for the current financial year of the number of homes in each local authority area that suffer from dampness.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what is the total level of funding provided to drug action teams in the current financial year.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what were the key findings of the recent review of the effectiveness of drug action teams.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to provide additional resources to drug action teams in order to increase services for drug misusers in the Fife, Forth Valley and Tayside Health Board areas.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether MI6 will be involved in working with the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline its strategy for the Drug Enforcement Agency, and confirm whether its principal target will be major drug traffickers and suppliers and not minor user dealers.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to consult on how the Drug Enforcement Agency will operate and whether the consultation will include the Scottish Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse, the Scottish Drugs Forum and COSLA.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to provide additional resources to the Scottish Courts and the Scottish Prison Services to deal with the potential increase in the number of prosecutions and imprisonments arising from the work of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to initiate a parliamentary debate on the role and purpose of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what will be the cost of setting up the Drug Enforcement Agency, what will be the its total budget in the first year of operation and whether it will provide a breakdown of that budget by cost of premises, staff, administration, and other costs.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive where it plans to locate the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive who it plans to appoint as Chief Executive of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Keith Raffan: To ask the Scottish Executive what will be the organisational structure of the Drug Enforcement Agency and how will it relate to the existing police forces, their drug squads and Custom and Excise.
