Wednesday, 17 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects Scottish Enterprise to publish an economic development strategy for broadcasting, as recommended by the Scottish Broadcasting Commission.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-15362 by Stewart Stevenson on 28 August 2008, when it will launch its consultation on improving the energy performance of...
To ask the Scottish Executive what greenhouse gas emissions from existing non-domestic buildings were in each year since 1989 in million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent (MTCO 2 e).
To ask the Scottish Executive what greenhouse gas emissions from existing domestic buildings were in each year since 1989 in million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (MTCO2e).
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has given to Argyll and Bute Council for the provision of the Luing ferry service in each year since 1999, also expressed as a percentage of the...
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to enable adults over the age of 55 to visit woodlands in the public forest estate.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether agreement has been reached regarding the financial contribution to the cost of the planned replacement of the main expansion joints of the Forth Road Bridge;...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18139 by Stewart Stevenson on 5 December 2008, how many and which local authorities attended the seminars about Energy...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18139 by Stewart Stevenson on 5 December 2008, whether it will list the housing associations that (a) attended and (b) did not...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18138 by Stewart Stevenson on 5 December 2008, whether it will list the key property industry representatives and private...
To ask the Scottish Executive, for each assault that resulted in a direct measure being issued by procurators fiscal, whether it will list the (a) type and (b) severity of the assault in each...
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to make sure that all kinship carers receive financial assistance.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-17875 and S3W-17871 by Michael Russell on 27 November 2008, whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information...
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S3W-17253, which received a holding reply on 11 November 2008.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many accounts submitted to it by contractors had not been settled within a 10-day period as at 10 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it ensures that the registered interests of members, including chairs, of recently established government commissions or bodies are available to the public...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to set up a statutory body to undertake the planning, construction and operation of renewable electricity generating facilities to maximise the use...
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce a timetable for the construction of improvements at the Haudagain roundabout in Aberdeen.
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate has been made of the cost of dealing with snow on the roads this winter; what account has been taken of such cost in the local government settlement,...
To ask the Scottish Executive why the Transport Scotland website states that the motorway and trunk road preparation programme is updated quarterly but the version shown at 4 December 2008 has...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there have been changes to the motorway and trunk road preparation programme in the last 12 months and, if so, for what reason this has not been publicly...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Jacobs Babtie is involved in both environmental evaluation of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route and in preliminary design work connected to the project.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list any approved capital projects for which contracts were signed (a) in 2008 and (b) since publication of the outline business case for the...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16270 by John Swinney on 23 October 2008, whether it will provide in relation to each of the projects the (a) date of...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16269 by John Swinney on 23 October 2008, whether it will provide in relation to each of the projects the (a) initial project...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to develop new sectarianism-awareness campaigns in further and higher educational establishments.
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to enable adults from the most deprived areas to visit woodlands in the public forest estate.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9313 by Fergus Ewing on 19 February 2008, when it expects UK ministers to lay the s104 Order in relation to the Title...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been convicted of failing to inspect snares, or cause them to be inspected, at least once every day at intervals of no more than 24 hours, in...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people it understands to have set snares after having seen the tracks of protected species, in the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it ensures that people do not set snares when they see the tracks of protected species and how this is monitored.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of protected species being trapped have been reported to it in the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ban snaring in light of the result of a recent opinion poll showing 79% support for a total ban.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether the Parliament routinely translates information into British Sign Language (BSL).
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it has awarded a contract to any organisation to translate parliamentary information into British Sign Language (BSL).
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it will adapt the Parliament’s website to enable British Sign Language (BSL) to be used.