To ask the Scottish Executive what efforts it has made to ensure that membership of the EU Agricultural Subsidies Appeals Panel is as independent as possible and what plans it has to further...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) male and (b) female alcohol-related deaths there have been in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied that the laws concerning prosecutions for the sale of alcohol to under-age children and drunk persons are being adequately enforced.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will increase the support it provides to local alcohol counselling agencies.

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of requests by GPs for an ambulance within one hour, not including immediate or non-urgent requests, were met within the hour in each of the last...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27877 by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 August 2002, whether the objective of having a paramedic on every frontline accident and...

To ask the Scottish Executive , further to the answer to question S1W-9694 by Mr Sam Galbraith on 20 September 2000, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the timetable is for the tender process for the provision of the appropriate bus infrastructure to support the use of Smartcards for concessionary travel.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-3285 by Tavish Scott on 9 December 2003, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals with...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many violent assaults involved the use of a knife, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of violent assaults, broken down by (a) local authority and...

To ask the Scottish Executive what categories of dental check-up will be provided free to patients.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-11573 by Nicol Stephen on 26 November 2004, whether its targets in respect of its commitment to ensure broadband access in...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-11571 by Nicol Stephen on 18 November 2004, what exchanges are not enabled for broadband by BT.

To ask the Scottish Executive what provisions are in place to support drug misusers on completion of prison sentences.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will encourage community care of garden schemes to assist elderly people who are unable to maintain their gardens.

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to encourage European institutes to establish headquarters in Scotland; which institutes it has tried to attract, and where it has...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has responded to the European Commission’s Green Paper, Confronting Demographic Change: a new solidarity between the nations ; if not, whether it...

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the issues raised in the European Commission’s Green Paper, Confronting Demographic Change: a new solidarity between the nations .

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with COSLA about future funding of family mediation and couple counselling services.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-12205 by Lewis Macdonald on 25 November 2004, when it will publish the recommendations of the National Technical Advisory...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-12204 by Lewis Macdonald on 25 November 2004, what progress it has made on publishing technical guidance for local authorities...

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment of the full life cycle of carbon emissions it makes when considering flood defence proposals.

To ask the Scottish Executive what changes to how it considers flood defence schemes it will make as part of its review of the Scottish Climate Change Programme.

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to promote employment opportunities in Scotland and the Fresh Talent initiative at careers events at higher education institutions in the...

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to promote employment opportunities in Scotland and the Fresh Talent initiative at careers events at higher education institutions in the...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many GP practices have withdrawn minor injuries services as a result of the NHS board opting not to fund the enhanced payments scheme for provision of these...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were diagnosed with acoustic neuroma in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board, and how many were treated with (a) ENT surgery, (b)...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15970 by Cathy Jamieson on 20 April 2005, which sexual health organisations and organisations focusing on HIV and hepatitis C...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been treated by CT scanners in each year since 1999 in (a) Scotland and (b) each NHS board area.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many CT scanners there are per head of population in (a) Scotland and (b) each NHS board area.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any studies carried out to determine whether any specific illnesses or conditions in former UK services personnel, their children and...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider the recommendation of the Final Report of the Emergency Medical Admissions Scoping Group of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland that a primary...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will increase the frequency of monitoring of waiting times in accident and emergency departments to more than once a year.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-5109 by Rhona Brankin on 27 January 2005, when the report by NHS Greater Glasgow on the review of the assumptions that...

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure the optimal use of diagnostic services, both laboratory and radiology, in and out of hours to reduce waits and delays in...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any research is being carried out into the use of teleradiology within the NHS to assist image transfer from referring hospitals to specialist sites.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether an investigation is being carried out into any increase in numbers of perinatal deaths in the Argyll and Clyde area and, if so, who is carrying out the...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will extend the working day and 24-hour availability of CT scanning for emergency patients, as recommended in the Final Report of the Emergency Medical...

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in introducing a mechanism to identify recurrent admissions of patients over 80 and to systematically evaluate the needs of these...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be wide implementation of the Scottish Early Warning System documentation with a view to establishing a standardised clinical early warning...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14046 by Hugh Henry on 25 February 2005, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals with...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14048 by Hugh Henry on 25 February 2005, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals with...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many legal actions have been taken out against traffickers of women and children since March 2004.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications there have been for legal aid in each of the last five years by people taking civil action against psychiatric services in the NHS and what the...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the highest award made by the Scottish Legal Aid Board was in the last five years to a person taking legal action against psychiatric services in the NHS.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19628 by Angus MacKay on 15 November 2001, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer providing a total derived...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10014 by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 September 2004, to which (a) pesticides and (b) other non-pharmaceutical substances the...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9595 by Malcolm Chisholm on 29 July 2004, whether all of the provisions of Schedule 2 of the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many calls to NHS 24 in 2003-04 were classed as "out of hours" in the Glasgow centre, expressed also as a percentage of all calls to the centre.

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been available in each year since 1999 for the replacement of CT scanners, broken down by NHS board.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8667 by Mr Jack McConnell on 28 July 2000, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals...

To ask the Scottish Executive what actions can be taken by local authority planning departments who obtain interim interdicts against developers who then breach the interdict by continuing to...

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on upgrading visitor, staff and administrative facilities in each prison in the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it forecasts spending to be on upgrading visitor, staff and administrative facilities in each prison in the next five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive what rules and guidelines cover the attendance of MSPs at media conferences held by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the total number of meals consumed by prisoners was in each prison in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an updated version of annexe 15 to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons’ report on an inspection of HM Prison Kilmarnock in March 2002.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish details of the total funds invested in the First ScotRail franchise by (a) it, (b) First Group plc and (c) any other sources since the...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish details of the total funds invested in the previous ScotRail franchise by (a) it and the Scottish Office, (b) National Express Group and (c)...

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how much was paid, and on which dates, through the Strategic Rail Authority to the National Express Group as compensation for loss of...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15166 by Nicol Stephen on 24 March 2005, what specific role the new regional partnership in the west of Scotland will have in...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13481 by Allan Wilson on 26 January 2005, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals with...

To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate was of the cost of the public local inquiry (PLI) on the M74 Special Road (Fullarton Road to West of Kingston Bridge) Orders prior to the inquiry...

To ask the Scottish Executive what process has been put in place to make forest crofts available from the Forestry Commission estate.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has committed for the protection and promotion of the Scots language in this year and the next two financial years.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15621 by Sarah Boyack on 17 May 2001, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the total with the...

To ask the Scottish Executive what its definition is of "services" in Part 5 of the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Bill and whether it intends to lodge an amendment to insert a...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many sports clubs are registered as community amateur sports clubs, broken down by sport.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15297 by Lewis Macdonald on 15 April 2005, whether the report, commissioned by the Country Sports Tourism Group, will measure...

To ask the Scottish Executive what financial support is available to graduates undertaking postgraduate training.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many suicides there have been from the Erskine Bridge in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many attempted suicides there have been from the Erskine Bridge in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures have been put in place on the Erskine Bridge to prevent suicides.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24402 by Lewis Macdonald on 26 April 2002, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S2W-15405 by Nicol Stephen on 18 April 2005, who has been commissioned to carry out the study of transport issues in and around Maybole;...

To ask the Scottish Executive what support is being given to additional park-and-ride provision to meet the needs of new developments in south-east Edinburgh.