To ask the Scottish Executive whether the courts are applying drink-driving rehabilitation programmes as part of sentencing procedure and whether it is monitoring uptake of such programmes.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many school leavers had no national qualification to Scottish Credit Qualification Framework level 3 or better in academic year 2001-02.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many sector skills councils are currently in place and how many will be in place by the end of (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Sector Skills Development Agency has the experience and expertise to provide the services previously provided by other bodies such as Sector Skills...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27797 by Iain Gray on 19 August 2002, when it will publish the feasibility study undertaken by Paisley Enterprise Research...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27798 by Iain Gray on 19 August 2002, whether it will establish a national centre for women’s enterprise to promote new...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any input into the Department of Trade and Industry’s Women’s Enterprise Strategic Framework due to be published shortly and how it...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a strategy for promoting businesses run by women.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24446 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002, what percentage of microcredit loans for start-up businesses go to women.

To ask the Scottish Executive who, or what body, will represent the collective interests of sectors skills councils.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has sought advice from Her Majesty's Government about what the criteria are in respect of a member state having fishing interests in a certain sea area or...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the patients ready for discharge, as specified by the Information and Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency on 15 October 2002, were 65 and over.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were affected by delayed discharge in each of the last two years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much having patients ready for, but still awaiting, discharge from an NHS hospital cost the NHS (a) in total and (b) per person in each of the last three years.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-33365 by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 February 2003, what the NHS board and profession is of each staff member called up in...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the investigation into fraudulent activity involving the individual learning account scheme has been completed and, if not, when the investigation will be...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many learning providers under the individual learning account scheme have been identified as having been involved in fraudulent activity and what this figure...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) reports have been referred to procurators fiscal and (b) arrests have been made in relation to identified fraudulent activity involving the individual...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether all monies owed to learning and training providers under the individual learning account scheme have been paid and, if not, which providers are still...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have occurred to date as a result of the termination of the individual learning accounts scheme and how it calculated this figure.

To ask the Scottish Executive what compensation scheme it will introduce for small businesses that provided training under the individual learning account scheme and incurred losses as a result...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost has been of the investigation into fraudulent activity under the individual learning account scheme; what amount has been budgeted for any...

To ask the Scottish Executive what improvements it is considering for inclusion in the administrative structure of a successor to the individual learning account scheme to overcome any...

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish plans for the distribution of funds from the new landfill tax credit scheme following the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s pre-budget report...

To ask the Scottish Executive what specialist services are provided in each NHS board area for the diagnosis and treatment of perinatal mental illness.

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will appoint a special NHS board to manage the National Golden Jubilee Hospital and who it will appoint to this board.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its employees are paid the national minimum wage.

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it holds on the level of pay currently applicable to staff employed by contractors operating under contract to it and on how these levels of pay...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many public sector workers would have benefited if the national minimum wage had been set at £5.00 an hour.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many probationer police officers there have been in each police force in each of the last five financial years and in the current financial year to date.

To ask the Scottish Executive in which performance quarters the maximum limit of 5% of contract price for performance revenue deductions, as referred to in the second paragraph of Schedule F to...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32809 by Ross Finnie on 13 January 2003, on what date the survey "Public Attitudes Towards Wind Farms in Scotland" was withdrawn.

To ask the Scottish Executive what grid references were used to identify the wind power sites at Hagshaw Hill, Bein Ghlass, Novar and Windy Standard for sampling purposes in the survey "Public...

To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to publicise the withdrawal of the survey "Public Attitudes Towards Wind Farms in Scotland"

To ask the Scottish Executive whether parties likely to become involved in applications to build wind farms have been advised that the survey "Public Attitudes Towards Wind Farms in Scotland" has...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-32809 by Ross Finnie on 13 January 2003, who is undertaking the new survey on public attitudes towards wind farms

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff have been employed by VisitScotland and what the staff costs have been in each year since 1999, broken down by department and salary band.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether brown tourist signage indicating accommodation is sufficiently informative in relation to the type of accommodation available, given that such signs do not...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30425 by Mike Watson on 25 November 2002, how many people have visited Scotland on holiday to participate in outdoor pursuits...