Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been of using debt collection agencies for the purpose of collecting student loan debt on behalf of the Student Loans Company in each of the last five years.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how much student loan debt has been collected by debt collection agencies on behalf of the Student Loans Company in each of the last five years.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive what targets have been set to ensure that people having seizures will not have to wait more than six months for intervention and treatment after seeing an epilepsy specialist.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how much it estimates it would cost each local authority to adopt all of the unadopted roads in its authority area.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how many radiographers have been employed in each of the last five years in each NHS board, also showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how many meetings have taken place between civil servants and Scots language organisations in connection with the development of the national languages strategy, since February 2006.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how often it plans to meet Scots language organisations to assist in the process of developing its national languages strategy.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the discussions with Scots organisations, designed to promote and develop the Scots language, referred to in Scotland’s Culture , have taken place.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive what its timetable is for the development of a national languages strategy and whether it will explain any delay in meeting its earlier targets for the development of such a strategy.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take steps to set up a Scots language advisory group with responsibility for assisting it with the development of appropriate policies to support the Scots language.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to take on board the views of organisations representing the regional dialects of Scots when it formulates policies designed to promote and develop the Scots language.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants are working on the development of policies to promote and develop the Scots language.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants are working on the development of the national languages strategy.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dentists there are in each local authority area.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dentists there are per head of population in each local authority area.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dentists there are in deprived areas in each local authority area.
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are on NHS dental waiting lists in each local authority area.
Maureen Watt: Will the member give way?
Maureen Watt: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers a reduction in Scottish Enterprise's modern apprenticeships programme for over-25s to be discriminatory on the ground of age. (S2O-10415)
Maureen Watt: The minister's answer does not square with the briefings that I had from Scottish Enterprise this morning and in recent meetings with Scottish Enterprise Tayside and Scottish Enterprise Grampian. In order to balance the budget, something clearly had to go: it appears that the over-25s modern apprenticeships programme has been reduced. Does the minister agree that that reduction and the...