To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken, and is taking, to promote the development of new air routes from Glasgow Airport.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has been consulted by the Home Office regarding the siting of accommodation centres in Scotland under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002...

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it will give to any impact on navigation of the River Clyde into Glasgow city centre when it considers whether to approve the proposed Finnieston...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish ministers will, under the Building (Scotland) Bill, be able to require that improvements be made, to a level no higher than that required by...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the five most common reasons are for rejecting applications under its central heating installation programme and to what percentage of rejected applications...

To ask the Scottish Executive further to the answer to question S1W-27257 by Hugh Henry on 31 July 2002, what the average length of time between receipt of an application and completion of...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many pensioners in Renfrewshire have benefited from the (a) Warm Deal scheme and (b) central heating installation programme in each of the last five years and...

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £47.5/47.5/47.5 million to support the central heating programme, as referred to in Building a Better Scotland: Spending Proposals 2003-2006:...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29399 by Ms Margaret Curran on 1 November 2002, what benefits neighbourhood wardens will bring to the citizens in those...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29399 by Ms Margaret Curran on 1 November 2002, whether it will define those parameters of the arrangements between the...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29399 by Ms Margaret Curran on 1 November 2002, what the duties of the neighbourhood wardens/patrols will be that do not...

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had, or plans to have, with the Office for National Statistics regarding any miscalculation of entitlement to Objective One funding for the...

To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring and assessment took place in relation to the closure of fishing grounds last year as part of the cod recovery plan and what the results of such...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Environment and Rural Development has met any MSP in connection with the future of the fishing industry, the impending negotiations with the...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has sought any legal opinion on whether the 1985 Act of Accession envisages that Spain’s northern EEC fishing access rights will expire on 31...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31980 by Ross Finnie on 10 December 2002, whether keeping the Common Fisheries Policy's (CFP) principle of relative stability...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to draw up an action plan to implement its commitments made in the UK Forest Partnership for Action.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the annual report of the Forestry Commission will be published soon; whether it will be published during the parliamentary recess, and, if so, whether any...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30199 by Iain Gray on 16 October 2002, what action it has taken to evaluate the impact of the new student funding packages on...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many students successfully completed a higher education course solely at a further education institution in each year since 1990.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30235 by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 October 2002, what requests for liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22072 by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 February 2002, what information it has regarding the number of patients removed from GPs lists...

To ask the Scottish Executive what underspend in the Health Department budget there has been in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01 and (c) 2001-02 and what underspend is projected for 2002-03.

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of land released for housing developments since May 1999 has come from sites formerly used as playing fields.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many recorded rams and ram lambs (a) were retained for in-flock improvement by Highlands and Islands Sheep Strategy (HISS) members in (i) 2001 and (ii) 2002, (b)...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31113 by Ross Finnie on 11 November 2002, whether it has received a response from European Commission officials with regard to...

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made with the policy and financial management review of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive how long, on average, multiple sclerosis sufferers wait for an assessment for beta interferon, broken down by NHS board area.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many sufferers of multiple sclerosis are currently waiting for an assessment for beta interferon, broken down by NHS board area.

To ask the Scottish Executive how the UN International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination impacts on provisions within the law that relate to the prevention of...

To ask the Scottish Executive who will own the 22 new three-car trains referred to in its news release SEET213/2002.

To ask the Scottish Executive what distance its guidelines recommend wind turbines should be sited from residential properties on account of noise considerations.

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of farms being tenanted would represent a vibrant tenanted sector.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of developing the One Scotland. Many Cultures website was and how much has been budgeted for the maintenance of the site, inclusive of VAT in each case.

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made on its commitment to consider undertaking a survey in association with the Student Awards Agency for Scotland and the Scottish Higher...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether graduating students will have less debt following the implementation of its new student support schemes; what the reasons are for the position on this...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many mature students received the maximum available mature students’ bursary in each year since the scheme started.

To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria it uses to determine the level of funding that it will provide each year under the mature students’ bursary scheme.