To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16416 by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2008, whether it has had discussions with NFU Scotland, or other relevant...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16417 by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2008, what action it will take in response to recent amendments to EU Directive...

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has held with Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd regarding the installation of an instrument landing system at Wick Airport.

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of instrument landing systems in the Highlands and Islands airport network area in terms of the (a) reduction in...

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources are planned for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11 in order for Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd to provide instrument landing...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been (a) arrested for and (b) charged with consuming alcohol in a public place in each of the last five years, broken down by (i) police force...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many accident and emergency vehicles have been in use by NHS Lothian in each of the last five years, broken down by type of vehicle.

To ask the Scottish Executive how it is encouraging the uptake of SVQs in aquaculture.

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to increase and improve vocational training in the aquaculture industry.

To ask the Scottish Executive what practical steps it will take to promote investment in, and the creation of, high-value and highly-skilled jobs in aquaculture.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time for audiology services is in (a) NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (b) NHS Lanarkshire.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the performance figures for the cancer waiting time target in each quarter since the target was set, broken down by NHS board.

To ask the Scottish Executive what value it places on the work and role of Crofters Commission area assessors.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much support has been given to the crofting sector under the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants Scheme (CCAGS) in each year since 1999 and what level of...

To ask the Scottish Executive what its plans are to reform the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants Scheme.

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with crofting stakeholders on its plans to reform the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants Scheme (CCAGS) and, in particular, its...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals in the agricultural sector who are not registered crofters have received support under the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants Scheme in each...

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to concerns among individuals in the agricultural sector who have crofting interests but are not registered crofters and have received or...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are eligible for priority access to NHS dental services and how many are receiving these services.

To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to promote equality in education for pupils with additional support needs, specifically in ensuring that they are taught by appropriately trained staff.

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to ensure that pupils with additional support needs and their families have (a) full and easy access to learning materials in different...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will conduct a feasibility study into a sub-sea cable along the west coast of Scotland for the transmission of electricity as an alternative to an...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is considering how people with acute or pre-existing health conditions that could be affected by cold or damp housing but are not included in the criteria...

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will assess whether the change in structure of the local enterprise network affects the Glasgow economy.

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate has been made of the cost of reducing all Caledonian MacBrayne fares by 40% for (a) passenger, (b) vehicle and (c) cargo services.

To ask the Scottish Executive what fare concessions have been deleted for (a) commercial and (b) non-commercial ferry passengers in the road equivalent tariff pilot areas and what savings will be...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16419 by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2008, what further consideration it has given to the recent amendments to EU Directive...

To ask the Scottish Executive what assurances it can provide that forests will not be jeopardised as recreational resources as a result of the long-term leasing of full management and cutting...

To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to support biomass initiatives while allowing the long-term leasing of full management and cutting rights over at least 25% of the national forest...

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure the sustainable management of forests if full management and cutting rights over at least 25% of the national forest estate are leased to large...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Forestry Commission Scotland jobs it considers would be put at risk through the long-term leasing out of full management and cutting rights over at least...

To ask the Scottish Executive what impact it considers there would be on the retention of jobs and skills in Forestry Commission Scotland as a result of the long-term leasing out of full...

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on which fuel poverty schemes will be funded under the UK Government’s Carbon Emissions Reduction Target scheme and which will be...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is planning to carry out pilot studies to address fuel poverty in tenements and tower blocks as suggested by the Fuel Poverty Forum.

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to encourage employers and trade unions in the college sector to review the principles which govern the reward and remuneration of staff.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people who have suffered a stroke are subsequently affected by aphasia.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether substance misuse services and mental health agencies will use an agreed assessment tool to identify co-morbidity systematically and help to match care...

To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to enhance cooperation on eHealth by developing systems that are compatible with those of other EU countries.

To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken in preparation for cross-border health care throughout the European Union.

To ask the Scottish Executive what its reasons were for refusing to answer 21 freedom of information requests and subsequent reviews relating to the outbreak of Clostridium difficile at the Vale...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to bring forward a Bill to amend heritage legislation in Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to comments from the Cabinet Secretary for Justice published in The Scotsman on 30 October 2008 and in light of the terms of motion S3M-2746: Success as...

To ask the Scottish Executive when the strategic framework on violence against women will be published.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether recent discussions have taken place with the Office of Fair Trading regarding the Greenbelt Group Ltd and, if so, what the outcome was.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17380 by Kenny MacAskill on 13 November 2008, how many (a) test-purchase visits and (b) off-sales licences there were in each...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the projections for local income tax revenues set out in its explanatory paper, Abolition of council tax and introduction of local income tax: revenue...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its press release of 24 November 2008 accompanying publication of responses to the local income tax consultation, in which the Cabinet Secretary for...

To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has undertaken or commissioned, or plans to undertake or commission, to establish the numbers of seals killed by shooting every year given concerns...

To ask the Scottish Executive, in drawing up its proposals under the forthcoming Marine Bill for amending the Conservation of Seals Act 1970, whether it has taken advice on animal welfare issues...

To ask the Scottish Executive in what circumstances it might be necessary to covertly administer anti-psychotic drugs.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the existence of good practice guidelines sufficiently protects an elderly dementia patient from being inappropriately prescribed an anti-psychotic drug.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the existence of good practice guidelines is sufficient to protect a patient from being prescribed medication that could cause a fatal adverse reaction, if...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 provides for the covert administration of drugs.

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will implement the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) formula for health board funding.

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding was provided for primary care services in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09, broken down by NHS board.

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding is to be provided for primary care services in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12, broken down by NHS board.

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of NHS board budgets is allocated to the provision of GP services, broken down by NHS board.

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage increase there was in emergency in-patient admissions in Fife in 2007-08, broken down by age group and community health partnership area; what the...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is ensuring that, in reducing the use of agency or bank staff, NHS boards are meeting agreed staffing levels in all units and agreeing any reductions in...

To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met representatives of NHS Lanarkshire.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be to the public sector in Scotland of the increase in employers’ national insurance contributions announced in the pre-Budget report and...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an updated version of the timetable that it provided in November 2007 for the implementation of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006,...

To ask the Scottish Executive in relation to the redevelopment of (a) HM Prison Edinburgh, (b) HM Prison Glenochil, (c) HM Prison Perth and (d) HM Young Offenders Institute (HMYOI ) Polmont how...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many subsidised bus services are in place in each parliamentary constituency in the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport area.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17913 by Stewart Stevenson on 18 November 2008, why it has not aligned Fife fares with the rest of Scotland from January 2009,...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17913 by Stewart Stevenson on 18 November 2008, whether rail fares across Scotland are fully aligned.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that adequate support is being received by the agricultural industry through the Scottish Rural Development Plan.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether its review of the Rural Priorities scheme following the first round of awards will examine the possibility of shifting funding into alternative agricultural...

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the cost of providing free school meals, broken down by local authority.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many meetings have been held at ministerial or official level with (a) COSLA and (b) individual local authorities since the announcement on 2 October 2008 by the...

To ask the Scottish Executive how the funding that would previously have been allocated to Scottish Enterprise Glasgow has been spent in the current financial year.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the funding that would previously have been distributed by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow is less in the current financial year than in previous years.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact is of the closure of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow.

To ask the Scottish Executive which of its contracts for services have been awarded for the first time to private contractors since May 2003.

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with trade unions in respect of the recent Scottish Water pay offer to staff.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will convene a meeting between management and trade unions in respect of Scottish Water’s imposition of a wage settlement on its workforce.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much VisitScotland allocated to promoting South Lanarkshire in 2007-08 and 2008-09.

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what resources it has so far committed to the Calman Commission.