Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many incidences of violence against passengers in Scotland have been recorded by British Transport Police in each year since 1999.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding per head of population has been provided for the dental health service in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated from the Mental Health Specific Grant to each local authority in each year since 1999.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to increase the Mental Health Specific Grant.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to increase the Mental Health Specific Grant annually in line with inflation.
Maureen Watt: I apologise to the Presiding Officer and to the minister, as I have to leave immediately after my speech. Fergus Ewing suggested that Inverness is a Cinderella; I will be Cinderella tonight. I have to be at Ingliston for 7 o'clock, but unlike Cinderella I do not have a fairy godmother to transform me immediately. For the first 17 years of my life I lived less than 50 yards from the A96 on a...
Maureen Watt: Amendments 12 to 15 would add consistency to the bill's provisions on the supply of explanatory documents. Although the bill provides for sufficient information in different formats to be available to people who vote in person in polling stations, it does not extend the provision of such information to postal voters. As politicians know, there has been a marked increase in postal voting in...
Maureen Watt: I thank the minister for his remarks. Given that he has made it quite clear that the information will be in the supporting documentation, I seek to withdraw amendment 12. Amendment 12, by agreement, withdrawn. Amendments 13 to 15 not moved.
Maureen Watt: I do not want to take on Mr McLetchie on all the legal aspects that he is going into, but does he accept that the first certificate allows the body to be released so that relatives can bury the person? All the other things that he is talking about to do with winding up estates can be done later. There are situations in which people do not have any money to hand to get the death certificate in...
Maureen Watt: I am pleased to open the debate on behalf of the Scottish National Party. Members who were privileged enough to be elected to the Parliament in 1999 may recall that the first debate following devolution, on 2 July that year, was on the report submitted by the McIntosh commission on the relationship between local government and the new Scottish Parliament. I was a member of the commission and...
Maureen Watt: I certainly do. I intend to say something about that later in my speech. I am glad that the minister has again given Bruce Crawford the assurance that the boundaries for multimember wards will be finalised by the end of October. Before the debate, I read the Official Reports of proceedings on the bill, so I know that many aspects of it have been given a thorough airing—presumably, because...
Maureen Watt: Does the member agree that, in elections, council issues are submerged in the national issues that are covered in the media and in the literature that goes out to voters? Because of that, the two elections should be held on separate days.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-25904 by Ross Finnie on 23 May 2006, how many people wishing to enter agriculture have contacted, and been helped by, each local enterprise company since 1999 and what steps are taken to publicise the services of the enterprise network to those who may be interested in entering agriculture.
Maureen Watt: Does the member agree that we should condemn campaigns that harass Gypsy Travellers, such as that by one of our local evening papers?
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated for the purpose of eradicating deprivation in each local authority area in each year since 1999, also showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Maureen Watt: As the minister said, it is fitting that we should have such a debate as the first anniversary of the Gleneagles G8 summit approaches and stock is taken of whether any improvements have taken place in the plight of the citizens of African countries such as Malawi. The prognosis is not good. If we are to believe reports on this morning's "Today" programme on Radio 4, the gap between rich and...
Maureen Watt: The member should have listened to what I said; I said, "the recommendations of Margaret and her group." I recognise that it was a cross-party delegation. The G8 summit and the make poverty history campaign raised awareness and heightened expectations, but the task is huge. It was stated that the United Nations target of halving the number of people who live in poverty should be reached by...
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive what energy efficiency measures each of departments has undertaken in each year since 1999.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the use of debt collection agencies for the purpose of collecting student loan debt on behalf of the Student Loans Company.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how many debt collection agencies are approved for the purpose of collecting student loan debt on behalf of the Student Loans Company.
