To ask the Scottish Executive what role it considers that the Scotland football team plays in promoting sports participation rates and whether it has had discussions with the Scottish Football...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17933 by Shona Robison on 2 December 2008, what action it is taking to increase the number of NHS Lothian stroke patients...

To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to encourage higher levels of philanthropic giving to universities in Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many landlords have been removed from the register for the Landlord Registration Scheme, broken down by local authority.

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of its international framework, whether the Scottish Government will endeavour to ensure that the stated aim for its international activities of "bringing...

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the value of Scotland’s economic, sporting and other cultural links with Argentina and how this compares with the value of such...

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of people breaching (a) community sentence, (b) probation, (c) supervised attendance and (d) drug treatment and testing orders in 2007-08 served a...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) average and (b) overall cost was of breach applications made in respect of (i) community sentence, (ii) probation, (iii) supervised attendance and (iv)...

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of recent media interest in funding available from the Big Lottery Fund (BLF) and the fact that ministers will be setting new high-level policy directions...

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions the First Minister has left Scotland on official business since 16 May 2007, also showing the number of people who accompanied him on each...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide information on the destination, purpose and costs of all ministerial visits overseas from 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2008.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing’s statements on 11 September 2008 that a buy-out of the PFI contract for car parking at Ninewells...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17745 by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 November 2008, when it expects the 8,274 members of NHS staff still to be paid arrears after...

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the latest actuarial valuations for the Scottish Teachers and NHS pensions schemes.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will set out any developments in relation to the administrative arrangements for paying pensions to public service pensioners in Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that information on offenders’ learning difficulties is provided (a) to the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) on admission to and...

To ask the Scottish Executive what protocols are in place to ensure that every prisoner is assessed for learning difficulties on admission to custody.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of any planned visits by civil servants to (a) Iceland, (b) Norway, (c) Ireland and (d) Denmark in 2009.