To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in delivering its alcohol strategy.

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in achieving the targets for (a) reducing drinking alcohol by young people, (b) binge drinking and (c) mortality from alcohol.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to set targets for reducing morbidity caused by excess alcohol consumption.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authority residential care places there currently are for children.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many foster placements on average children in foster care have during their time in foster care.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the power to advance well-being in the Local Government in Scotland Bill will confer a power of compulsory purchase or otherwise affect existing powers of...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the homicide victims shown as being the partner of the main accused in Homicides in Scotland Statistics 2001 were (a) women and (b) men and what the sex...

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance is in place regarding public access to the December 2002 electoral register.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is the policy of Scottish Enterprise to attempt, where possible, to resolve disputes by means of mediation, rather than litigation, and what the reasons...

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources are being made available to the NHS specifically for treatment and prevention of chronic liver failure resulting from hepatitis C infection.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31954 by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 December 2002, to whom the lead clinician of the managed clinical network will be accountable.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS patients can be referred to a chiropractor and whether any chiropractors are employed by the NHS.

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it receives from the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time equivalent (FTE) students there have been on average for each FTE counsellor in higher and further education institutions in each year since 1995...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-2748 by Mr Tom McCabe on 11 January 2001, whether it is still its position that there is no need to make representations to...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21417 by Mr Jim Wallace on 18 January 2002 and to its news release SE5006/2001 on 10 December 2001, what the timetable is for...

To ask the Scottish Executive when the review by the independent committee on liquor licensing will be completed and when the report of the review will be published.

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on (a) expenditure incurred by and (b) costs paid to First Engineering in respect of work on rail in Scotland in each year since 1997.

To ask the Scottish Executive when a meeting last took place with Her Majesty’s Government to discuss the present and future circumstances of the shipbuilding industry and what decisions...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32216 by Iain Gray on 13 December 2002, how many clients of the Dumbarton and Lomond Inclusiveness Project are resident at...