To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence there is to support (a) brain malfunction caused by biochemical imbalance or (b) genetic heritability being causal factors of attention deficit...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in the light of the outcomes of modernisation of audiology services in England and Wales, it will make a commitment to modernisation of such services based...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received information about any plans to roll out access to appropriate digital hearing aids throughout Northern Ireland and what plans it has to make...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to meet Angus Council to discuss further the funding of the A92 bridge over the River South Esk at Montrose.

To ask the Scottish Executive . further to the answer to question S1W-29930 by Mr Frank McAveety on 9 October 2002, when it intends to complete its consideration of the implications for its...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31405 by Mr Frank McAveety on 20 November 2002, whether the Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal’s judgement on 20...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any record of the number of occasions on which the outcome of a children’s hearing as decided by a children’s panel cannot be...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children’s panel members’ associations there are and what the role of such associations is in the children’s hearing system.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has estimated the contribution that local authority action will make to meeting its climate change targets.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre all guidance, guidelines and official circulars initiated by the Scottish Office and the Scottish...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-5965 by Nicol Stephen on 28 November 2002, whether a deadline has been set for collating the details from local authorities on...

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of pupils did not achieve Level A within the 5-14 attainment targets by the end of primary 4 for (a) reading, (b) writing and (c) mathematics in each...

To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates since October 2001 local authorities and emergency services have carried out nuclear emergency drills in co-operation with UK agencies and where any...

To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates since October 2001 local authorities and emergency services have carried out emergency drills for terrorist attacks; where such drills took place, and...

To ask the Scottish Executive what target it has set for the number of jobs to be relocated to rural areas in each of the next five years and, if no such target has been set, whether it has any...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports the creation of a gap year travel fund initiative for school leavers as a means of stimulating the economy.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports the establishment of a competitiveness council.

To ask the Scottish Executive what resources were made available to (a) South Lanarkshire Council, (b) the enterprise company serving South Lanarkshire and (c) other bodies to assist with...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the procedure is for the notification of any instances of dumping of radioactive waste at sea to (a) the Parliament, (b) relevant local authorities, (c)...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31010 by Ross Finnie on 7 November 2002, how many fishing licenses have been allocated by its Environment and Rural Affairs...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31011 by Ross Finnie on 7 November 2002, how many fishing licenses issued by its Environment and Rural Affairs Department are...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1F-2273 by the First Minister on 21 November 2002, what meetings have taken place to explore any flexibility in the Common...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) registered foster carers there have been and (b) children have been in foster care in each year for which such information is available since 1995.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average rate of pay is for foster carers and whether there are any plans to implement a national pay scale for such carers.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether relatives that act as foster carers are entitled to receive any foster care benefits.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scotland should be promoted to prospective students from overseas as a place to study and whether such students should be encouraged to stay following...

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the availability of opportunities throughout Scotland for adult non-native speakers to learn Gaelic.

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the availability of opportunities to learn Gaelic as a second language in secondary schools throughout Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the availability of opportunities to learn Gaelic as a second language for primary school children.

To ask the Scottish Executive what practical assistance it is giving to help adults learn Gaelic as a second language.

To ask the Scottish Executive what priority it gives within its Gaelic policy to enabling adults to learn Gaelic as a second language.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Education and Young People, the Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning or the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29637 by Mr Andy Kerr on 7 October 2002, whether liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services is a...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services would prevent the reversal of its policy of encouraging public private partnerships.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services would be beneficial overall to the health sector.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-30230, S1W-30231, S1W-30233 and S1W-30234 by Cathy Jamieson on 17 October 2002, why it answered each of these questions by...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30235 by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 October 2002, whether any other effective market access for service providers, other than for...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30235 by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 October 2002, when it last made representations to Her Majesty’s Government about...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29654 by Cathy Jamieson on 1 October 2002, what adverse effects on trade in services in education need to be reduced or...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services would be beneficial overall to the education sector.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10593 by Malcolm Chisholm on 26 January 2001, what part of the General Agreement on Trade in Services suggests that the...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-29654 and S1W-30237 by Cathy Jamieson on 1 October and 29 October 2002, how the statement in the answer to question...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to questions S1W-29655, S1W-29656, S1W-29659, S1W-29660, S1W-29661 and S1W-29662 by Cathy Jamieson on 1 October 2002, what assessment it has...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether GPs are required to register when they undertake secondary jobs either in private consultancy or with the Department for Work and Pensions and, if so, how...

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland audit and monitor postcode prescribing and what action is taken where NHS trusts refuse to prescribe certain drugs and...

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking, or plans to take, to set national standards of care for preventing and treating coronary heart disease.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a breakdown by NHS board area of the incidence of patients dying within seven days of having been discharged from hospital or having been...

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has regarding the prescribing policy regarding atypical anti-psychotic drugs in each NHS board area.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any evaluation has been made of the compliance by NHS boards with the recommendations made by the Health Technology Board for Scotland (HTBS) on the...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether financial support should be provided to enable people wishing to return to university following redundancy.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-31475 and S1W-31964 by Dr Elaine Murray on 22 November and 9 December 2002 respectively, how it accounts for the expenditure...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a list of all individual grants made under the Town Scheme that involved money dispensed by it through Historic Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31965 by Dr Elaine Murray on 9 December 2002, whether it will give a breakdown of the six separate sums that comprise the...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31965 by Dr Elaine Murray on 9 December 2002, why the financial information in respect of grant recovery is confidential,...

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it and Argyll and Clyde NHS Board intend to take to address recruitment issues at the Vale of Leven District General Hospital.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will investigate any management failures that contributed to the resignation of staff at the Vale of Leven District General Hospital.

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to assist Argyll and Clyde NHS Board in restoring maternity services to the Vale of Leven District General Hospital.

To ask the Scottish Executive when an acute services review in the Argyll and Clyde NHS Board area will commence and what the expected completion date is.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is committed to supporting Argyll and Clyde NHS Board in maintaining a full range of services north of the River Clyde in order to meet the needs of the...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the future is of the Vale of Leven Hospital.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give details of the timetable of the proposed consultation period on the improvement to the stock transfer process, as announced in the ministerial...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31962 on 11 December 2002, why the information on the number of applications for grants to remove lead piping in domestic...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty’s Government about increasing the number of inquiries undertaken by the Inland Revenue into the financial...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the value of fines payable to HM Treasury under section 211(5) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 has been for each twelve-month period from 1 July...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the value of proceeds of district court fines sent to HM Treasury has been for each 12-month period from 1 July 1999 to date.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any subsidy is available for engineering apprenticeships; if so, whether it will give details, whether the subsidy is different from any subsidy available in...

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources it intends to provide to reduce waiting times for multiple sclerosis sufferers awaiting assessment for beta interferon.

To ask the Scottish Executive when a decision will be taken on the distribution of national lottery funds, given that the consultation period on Review of Lottery Funding - A consultation paper...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-departmental public bodies have been (a) abolished and (b) established since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-departmental public bodies it is planning to establish.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30175 by Mr Jim Wallace on 16 October 2002, why values for land and buildings were not given separately from other tangible...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32013 by Mr Jim Wallace on 10 December 2002, whether it made any examination of the value for money of contracting out...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32013 by Mr Jim Wallace on 10 December 2002, whether any internal bid was considered as part of the competitive tendering of...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the provider of education services in each Scottish Prison Service prison since 1 April 2000 to date, showing the dates on which each provider...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional prisoner places, as defined in section 34 of the Minute of Agreement between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison Services...

To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates a written notice has been given under section 34.1 of the Minute of Agreement between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison...

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the regeneration of Glasgow’s Clyde waterfront conference held on 29 November 2002 which called for a single agency to co-ordinate...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the value has been of receipts that were designated for the purposes of section 64(5) of the Scotland Act 1998 by article 2 of the Scotland Act 1998...

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has received to deal with any radioactive releases into the sea since the agency's inception.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Environment Protection Agency has a prosecution policy and, if so, whether it will give details of the policy.

To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of sectarianism in schools and what measures it proposes to tackle the issue.

To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of the education for mutual understanding scheme in Northern Ireland and whether the scheme could be utilised to tackle sectarianism in Scotland

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30235 by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 October 2002, when it was last in contact with the Department of Trade and Industry on trade...

To ask the Scottish Executive when the multi-agency group referred to on page 14 of Scotland’s Action Programme to Reduce Youth Crime 2002 under the heading "increasing public confidence in...

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made on implementation of the recommendations of the Advisory Group on Youth Crime, which reported in June 2000.