To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils have been suspended or expelled for alcohol-related issues in mid Scotland and Fife in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

To ask the Scottish Executive which islands and areas have had no reports of the presence of the varroa mite in the bee population.

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to ensure that varroa mite does not spread to those islands currently free of the mite.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the implications are for the application of resources, research and analysis to combat the spread of the varroa mite if it is not a notifiable disease.

To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence it has of a growing resistance to the existing and licensed treatments for varroa mite in bee populations.

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on plans to license new products for the treatment of the varroa mite in bee populations.

To ask the Scottish Executive what research into varroa mite control it is funding.

To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance it offers to beekeepers to understand the nature of the impact of the varroa mite and what measures beekeepers can take to combat its spread.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many beekeepers there are in Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will support the restoration of a network of bee advisers.

To ask the Scottish Executive how it is ensuring that Skills Development Scotland, Skillset and the further and higher education sectors are positioned to anticipate changes in the skills...

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to ensure that staff in school kitchens and canteens are disclosure checked.

To ask the Scottish Executive how the coastal landscape and seascape are protected during the planning process when new coastal developments are under consideration.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will extend the national concessionary travel scheme to include rail travel.

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it is making available in 2009-10 to Skillset, either directly or through Scottish Screen or any other agency, to support the development of improved...

To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many and (b) what type of offences were committed by people on bail in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area.

To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many and (b) what type of offences were committed by people on bail for knife-related offences in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area.

To ask the Scottish Executive on what information the Committee of Inquiry on Crofting, chaired by Professor Shucksmith, based its recommendation that a centralised bull hire facility should be ended.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Committee of Inquiry on Crofting, chaired by Professor Shucksmith, had access to a draft report by Peter Cook on the economics and options for the...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many arrest-referral schemes are in operation, broken down by drug action team (DAT), alcohol and drug action team (ADAT) or drug and alcohol action team (DAAT).

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug action team (DAT), alcohol and drug action team (ADAT) or drug and alcohol action team (DAAT) areas have supervised dispensing schemes for (a)...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made an assessment of the impact on black grouse in Dumfries and Galloway of leasing out parts of the national forest estate and whether it will...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made an assessment of the impact on fisheries of leasing out parts of the national forest estate in Dumfries and Galloway and whether it will publish...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the income was to Forest Enterprise Scotland from sales of timber in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06, (d) 2006-07 and (e) 2007-08.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected income is to Forest Enterprise Scotland from sales of timber in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to transfer responsibility for forest planning under the lease arrangements proposed in its paper Climate Change and the National Forest Estate -...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hectares of new woodlands have been created in each of the last five years by the (a) public and (b) private sector.

To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates to be the gross value added from direct visitor spend attributable to woodland visits in the public forest estate.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are employed in the public forest estate.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people Forestry Commission Scotland directly employs.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the current target of nine weeks for diagnostic tests will be subsumed within the new referral-to-treatment target of 18 weeks by 2011.

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that access to CT and MRI scans by direct referral from GPs is increased from 29% of hospitals for CT and 7% for MRI scans to...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce a minimum age of two years for the national surveillance programme for Clostridium difficile associated disease.

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the publication of the report of the Joint Future Thinking Taskforce on Universities, what measures will be put in place to guarantee support for the...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the new funding arrangements for universities referred to in the report of the Joint Future Thinking Taskforce on Universities,...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Horizon Fund for Universities, outlined in the report of the Future Thinking Taskforce on Universities, will be used to increase business engagement.

To ask the Scottish Executive what tailored incentives, as referred to in the report of the Future Thinking Taskforce on Universities, will be offered to encourage universities and businesses to...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether universities are expected to demonstrate how the government funding that they receive contributes to the Scottish Government’s national outcomes.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many landlords have applied to the Landlord Registration Scheme and been refused, broken down by local authority area.

To ask the Scottish Executive how it is publicising the Landlord Registration Scheme to prospective tenants.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce high-visibility vests for offenders completing community service sentences.

To ask the Scottish Executive what information is recorded on offences committed by people on bail.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considered the findings of a report by Peter Cook on the Crofters Cattle Quality Improvement Scheme before deciding to end the scheme as currently constituted.

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of budget cuts by City of Edinburgh Council, what action it proposes to alleviate the pressure on human and financial resources experienced by community...

To ask the Scottish Executive when it proposes to respond to the 2008 report by the Scottish Local Authorities Remuneration Committee (SLARC).

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of budget cuts by City of Edinburgh Council, whether it is aware of the pressure experienced by those delivering frontline services in the voluntary and...

To ask the Scottish Executive what NHS Lanarkshire is doing to increase specialist nursing services for people with multiple sclerosis.

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to lay a proposed National Planning Framework before the Parliament in accordance with the requirements of the Planning etc (Scotland) Act 2006.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17508 by Jim Mather on 14 November 2008, whether the installation of more efficient turbines of the original size at the...

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase pumped storage hydro capacity to enable excess electricity to be stored for later use when output exceeds demand.

To ask the Scottish Executive what research it conducted into the benefits of establishing the Scottish European Green Energy Centre.

To ask the Scottish Executive what advice it received, and from whom, on the benefits of establishing the Scottish European Green Energy Centre.

To ask the Scottish Executive what formal requirement there will be for the Scottish European Green Energy Centre to engage with (a) the European Commission, (b) the UK Government, (c) other...

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance is available to assist local authority planners and environmental health officers in the assessment of planning applications that incorporate...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it believes that the precautionary principle should be applied by local authorities to planning applications that incorporate wood-burning biomass energy...

To ask the Scottish Executive which 20 roads have had the highest number of (a) accidents and (b) fatalities in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce the funding mechanism for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of legal representation and consultants fees will be to Transport Scotland in connection with the public inquiry into the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.

To ask the Scottish Executive what initiatives it is pursuing to curb the practice of pavement parking and what guidelines are in place for local authorities.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit will be of the Scottish European Green Energy Centre.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff the Scottish European Green Energy Centre will have.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) set-up and (b) annual running costs will be of the Scottish European Green Energy Centre.

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish European Green Energy Centre will be funded.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the Scottish European Green Energy Centre’s work programme is for the next 12 months.

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to celebrate Christmas.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its employees offered to take a designated St Andrew’s Day holiday as one of their public holidays this year.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it monitors (a) the financial interests of senior civil servants and (b) companies whose work relates to the work of the division in which they are employed...

To ask the Scottish Executive who the remunerations advisers are for Scottish Water.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether ministers were asked if they approved the £342,555 contractual sum associated with pension top-up arrangements paid to Dr Jon Hargreaves on his...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether ministers were involved in the decision to increase from 20% the percentage of salary paid in bonus to executive directors of Scottish Water and, if so, when...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether a 34% increase in salary for an executive director of Scottish Water is consistent with Scottish Government pay guidance.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish Government pay guidance applies to executive directors of Scottish Water and, if not, what its reasons are for its position on this matter.

To ask the Scottish Executive how an executive director’s personal performance, which is used to determine 15% of his or her salary, is assessed; how the assessment is conducted, and...

To ask the Scottish Executive when it last benchmarked the salaries of Scottish Water’s directors against organisations of similar size and complexity.

To ask the Scottish Executive who is responsible for setting Scottish Water the targets for customer satisfaction, call handling and the number of written complaints, which are used to assist in...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Water Industry Commission has a role in setting or monitoring the criteria used to determine the remuneration of Scottish Water executive directors.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Water Industry Commission has a role in assessing the amount set aside from the funding available to Scottish Water for the remuneration of its executive...

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to resolve the pay dispute between Scottish Water and its staff.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers the pay offer made to Scottish Water staff to be satisfactory.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it spent on supplying Saltire flags to schools, pre-schools, nurseries, playgroups and family centres for use in the St Andrew’s Day celebrations.