To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10920 by Mr Tom McCabe on 8 October 2004, whether any steps have been taken to establish a policy on commissioning new art...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it, any of its agencies or non-departmental public bodies have promoted the formulation of a policy of support for new art.

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will address the disparity identified in the research, Causes of excess mortality in cerebral palsy , by Strauss, Cable and Shavelle which recorded that women...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16183 by Ross Finnie on 3 May 2005, whether it will direct the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to remove or suspend...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish Natural Heritage would be liable to compensate any landowners who incurred loss as a result of damage caused by the reintroduction of the beaver.

To ask the Scottish Executive which stakeholder groups are actively involved in its Equality Unit.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many meetings its Equality Unit has facilitated with age-related organisations in each year since its inception.

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its next Equality Annual Report.

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to promote the forthcoming EU Seventh Framework Programme to businesses, universities and colleges across Scotland

To ask the Scottish Executive how many perinatal deaths occurred in each of the last three years in (a) Rothesay and (b) Dunoon hospital and how many there were in (c) Inverclyde and (d) the...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many public sector houses have been sold to tenants since 1999, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of public sector houses.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a graph showing the percentage of public sector houses which have been sold to tenants in comparison with England in each year since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of occupied houses is privately owned.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses are below tolerable standard and what plans it has to remove such houses from the housing stock.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-23705 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 28 March 2002, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the total...

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will consult on proposals for a scheme to replace the Bull Hire Scheme.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has rejected a limited third-party right of appeal for inclusion in its proposed reform of planning legislation.

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of its proposed reform of planning legislation, whether it will provide examples of existing "projects of national strategic significance".

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the National Planning Framework and, in particular, the setting of national policy and sector priorities, whether it will consult on the...

To ask the Scottish Executive what Sewel motions it will lodge in the Parliament in connection with the legislative programme of the UK Government announced on 17 May 2005 in the Queen’s Speech.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its announcement on 28 April 2005 of £1.1 million funding for the "hydrogen office", how much electricity will be used to obtain the hydrogen from...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its announcement on 28 April 2005 of £1.1 million funding for the "hydrogen office", whether the hydrogen will be transported to the office building...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its announcement on 28 April 2005 of £1.1 million funding for the "hydrogen office", how many fuel cells the office will require; how much each...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its announcement on 28 April 2005 of £1.1 million funding for the "hydrogen office", how much the office building will cost to maintain and what its...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many road accidents causing injuries have occurred in each of the last 10 years on the B822 between the entrance from the north and the exit to the south of Kippen.

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it holds in respect of traffic volumes and speeds on the B822 between the entrance from the north and the exit to the south of Kippen.

To ask the Scottish Executive what research or evaluations have been carried out to establish the effectiveness and impact of individual Safer Routes to Schools road safety initiatives.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the best ways are of measuring the impact of Safer Routes to Schools road safety initiatives.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is concerned that its tender list for the management and maintenance of the trunk road network in north-west and south-west Scotland comprises only two...

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the announcement that only two firms have been selected to bid for the management and maintenance of the trunk road network in north-west and south-west...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the second supplementary question to question S2O-6076 by Nicol Stephen on 14 April 2005, when the next trunk road review will take place.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of air transport for its officials in each year since 1999, broken down by purpose of travel, for example representing the Executive or fact-finding.