To ask the Scottish Executive what steps have been taken to develop a set of minimum accessibility standards for all buildings.

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to address problems experienced recently at Wick Airport owing to staff shortages.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people under the age of (a) 14, (b) 16 and (c) 18 were treated for alcohol-related health problems in each of the last 12 months, broken down by NHS board.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-478 by Richard Lochhead on 12 June 2007, what its timetable is for any consultation on draft licensing of animal sanctuaries...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-478 by Richard Lochhead on 12 June 2007, what its timetable is for any consultation on draft licensing of livery yards legislation.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17557 by Richard Lochhead on 14 November 2008, what its timetable is for consultation on the replacement of the Pet Animals...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review the regulations covering castration and tail docking of lambs following the Report on the Implications of Castration and Tail Docking...

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take subsequent to any tendering exercise to secure the services of a person or persons to capture and translocate sparrowhawks.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much fuel it takes to heat a typical semi-detached house with (a) gas central heating and (b) non-white meter electric heating in (i) Braemar, (ii) Stornoway,...

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the estimated percentage of the extra fuel required to heat houses in (a) Edinburgh, (b) Glasgow, (c) Aberdeen, (d) Dundee, (e) Stornoway...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are directions from the Lord Advocate on the prosecution of child-care staff.

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to assist local community organisations affected by cuts in Fairer Scotland Fund grants.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-19208 by John Swinney on 9 January 2009, how, in each case, it intends to evaluate the effectiveness of the £1 million...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-19208 by John Swinney on 9 January 2009, what specific activities or resources it expects community justice authorities to...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the steering group set up to review the national concessionary travel scheme has considered extending access to the scheme to individuals in receipt of a War...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual cost would be of extending the national concessionary fares scheme to include all demand-responsive community transport.

To ask the Scottish Executive what contribution it will make to the purchase of the Titian painting from the Duke of Sutherland and from which budget.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dogs have been reported to the police as being dangerously out-of-control in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dog-bite incidents have been (a) reported to the police and (b) treated at hospital in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many claims for compensation resulting from dog-bite incidents were (a) made to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority and (b) upheld in each of the last...

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average amount of compensation awarded in claims made to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for dog bites was in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many court orders requiring that a dog be kept under proper control have been made under section 2 of the Dogs Act 1871 and what the level of compliance has been...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dogs have been destroyed under the (a) Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and (b) Dogs Act 1871 in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dogs have been seized by the police in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dogs have been impounded by dog wardens in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dog wardens are currently in the employment of local authorities, broken down by area.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the reasons were for a £5 million underspend on the Dental Action Plan, as outlined in the Audit Scotland report Financial overview of the NHS in Scotland...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether all of those who registered for the Broadband Reach Project have been contacted by Avanti Caledonian Broadband Ltd with broadband package options.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of those who registered for the Broadband Reach Project have placed an order with Avanti Caledonian Broadband Ltd in the (a) Highlands and Islands and (b)...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many premises in the (a) Highlands and Islands and (b) rest of Scotland have been activated to receive a broadband service through the Broadband Reach Project.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there have been or will be instances of those who have placed an order with Avanti Caledonian Broadband Ltd under the Broadband Reach Project being unable to...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is able to guarantee that broadband services will be provided by the target date of May 2009 to 100% of those who have placed an order for it as part of...

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available to support networks that offer specialist advice provision for disabled people.

To ask the Scottish Executive in what form the performance of the provision of respite for disabled people will be reported in light of the ending of ring fencing.

To ask the Scottish Executive when the first meeting of the reference group on independent living will be held.

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps have been taken to produce a self-directed support strategy.

To ask the Scottish Executive which three test sites have been chosen for consideration of how to improve the uptake of self-directed support.

To ask the Scottish Executive when the reference group on self-directed support last met.

To ask the Scottish Executive when the next meeting of the reference group on self-directed support will take place.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it measures unmet need for home adaptations for disabled people and, if so, what the level of unmet need is, expressed in terms of the number of disabled...

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of a report in the Press and Journal on 7 January 2009, what assessment it makes of the AA’s call for the vehicles of repeat drink-drivers to be...

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of drink and drug-drivers caught by police represents repeat offenders.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many school pupils received clothing grants in 2007-08 and what the average level of grant was, broken down by local authority area.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether infertility treatment will be included in the 18-week waiting time initiative.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cycles of IVF and ICSI per person can be provided by each NHS board.

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it made in advance of the publication of its 2009-10 budget bill of how many new private sector jobs would be created as a result of its measures.

To ask the Scottish Executive what comparative assessment it made of the impact on the Irish economy of the Irish Government’s most recent budget in order to inform the Scottish...

To ask the Scottish Executive what comparative assessment it made of the impact on the Norwegian economy of the Norwegian Government’s most recent budget in order to inform the Scottish...

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the importance of analytical facilities to the monitoring of the safety and standards of the public’s food, water and other...

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the UK Government and the Food Standards Agency regarding public analyst laboratories in Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to maintain an adequate public analyst service.

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Aberdeen City Council regarding the future of its Public Analyst Laboratory.

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it is giving to local authorities to halt the decline in analytical services.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many public analyst laboratories there have been in each year since 1995.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many public analysts have been employed in each year since 1995.

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to amend the legislation that requires local and national government to publish government notices in local and national newspapers.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider a pilot study of the self-referral of patients for physiotherapy services with a view to reducing the recurrence of pain and time off work.

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance has been issued to NHS boards on undertaking risk assessments of inpatients developing deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism.

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration has been given to the implications of a move towards single embryo transfer.

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of additional greenhouse gas emissions it expects will be generated by aviation resulting from Homecoming Scotland 2009.

To ask the Scottish Executive how it has assessed the level of greenhouse gas emissions expected to be generated by aviation resulting from Homecoming Scotland 2009.

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the promotional work for Homecoming Scotland 2009 will focus on domestic and European tourism rather than on increasing the number of visitors who...

To ask the Scottish Executive what efforts will be made to maximise the use of surface-based transport modes rather than aviation by domestic and European tourists coming to Homecoming Scotland 2009.

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the £25 million funding package for council housing, whether it will list the councils that have made applications for funding, also showing...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13606 by Stewart Maxwell on 30 May 2008, whether the provisional housing allocation of £3.922 million for Aberdeen in...

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the availability of affordable housing.

To ask the Scottish Executive in what form the performance of private landlord registration will be reported in light of the ending of ring fencing.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16514 by Stewart Maxwell on 6 October 2008, whether it has released or will release further funding to housing associations in...

To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanisms exist to ensure that disabled people needing urgent adaptations to their homes do not have to wait for more than six months.

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its strategy for improving home energy efficiency as required under section 179 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18738 by Kenny MacAskill on 16 December 2008 and his announcement on 24 October 2008 of £1 million additional funding to...

To ask the Scottish Executive, following the announcement on 24 October 2008 by Kenny MacAskill MSP of £1 million additional funding to deliver speedier community penalties, when it...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many appeals have been made against fixed penalties issued for dog fouling in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will implement the legislative changes recommended at paragraph 2.3 of the Annual Report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner to the Prime Minister and...

To ask the Scottish Executive what work it is undertaking to reduce the number of fine defaulters that serve prison sentences.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has spent on recruitment advertising in national newspapers in each year since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has spent on advertising public and statutory notices in national newspapers in each year since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has spent on recruitment advertising in local newspapers in each year since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has spent on advertising public and statutory notices in local newspapers in each year since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that there is effective support in the community for offenders with severe and enduring mental illness on release and how it will...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17745 by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 November 2008, how many appeals against pay banding have been lodged following assimilation...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W–17745 by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 November 2008, how many appeals against pay banding are outstanding following...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17745 by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 November 2008, how many retired NHS staff are awaiting assimilation under Agenda for Change,...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17745 by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 November 2008, how many appeals against pay banding have been lodged by retired NHS staff...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17745 by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 November 2008, how many appeals by retired NHS staff against pay banding are outstanding...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Agenda for Change assimilation process has been completed for all staff.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the chair of any non-departmental public body (NDPB) or government agency is eligible for inclusion in the civil service pension scheme and whether any such...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism was aware of the £30,000 donated to the SNP by Mr Donald Macdonald of Aviemore Highland Resort when...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism, with or without officials, met Mr Donald Macdonald of Aviemore Highland Resort or representatives of...

To ask the Scottish Executive when a report and statement on the extent to which the National Planning Framework participation statement was adhered to will be laid before Parliament.

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to objective two in the National Planning Framework participation statement, how it ensured that the selection of participants was representative of...

To ask the Scottish Executive what information was given in the National Planning Framework participation statement about when consultation was likely to take place.

To ask the Scottish Executive when the first meeting of the Community Regeneration and Tackling Poverty learning network was held.

To ask the Scottish Executive at what point the number of prisoners reached a peak and what that number was in each of the last 10 years.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18896 by Kenny MacAskill on 9 January 2009, what the reasons are for the Alcohol Awareness Programme not being offered to...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18896 by Kenny MacAskill on 9 January 2009, how much it cost to run and how many prisoners took part in the Alcohol Awareness...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to question S3W-18896 by Kenny MacAskill on 9 January 2009, how the Scottish Prison Service evaluates the Alcohol Awareness Programme.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18896 by Kenny MacAskill on 9 January 2009, what the duration is of the Alcohol Awareness Programme and what it involves for...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18262 by Kenny MacAskill on 8 December 2008, whether medical information obtained (a) on admission, (b) from any health...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many and which of its or its agencies’ senior officials receive private medical insurance as part of their remuneration packages.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17677 by John Swinney on 14 November 2008, whether it is now in a position to detail the status of the new scrutiny bodies...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-17678 by John Swinney on 14 November 2008, when it will publish its response to the Accountability and Governance Action Group...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional weeks of respite care are being provided by each local authority in 2008-09.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional weeks of respite care are to be provided by each local authority in 2009-10.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) fatal and (b) non-fatal accidents there have been on each trunk road in the Lothians since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on upgrading each trunk road in the Lothians in each year since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many objections to the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route came from addresses without an AB postcode; what proportion of the total number of objections that...

To ask the Scottish Executive on which criteria the Inverness trunk link route between the A9 and A82 fell short in determining whether it should be funded under plans announced as part of the...

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it intends to have with stakeholders in North Ayrshire in relation to the upgrading of the Dalry bypass.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-trunk roads were included in the recent Strategic Transport Projects Review for expenditure during the period covered by the review.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many miles of new trunk road will be created under plans recently announced in the Strategic Transport Projects Review.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many road projects announced in the Strategic Transport Projects Review are to be jointly funded by the Scottish Executive and a local authority or authorities.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will reverse its decision not to fund the Inverness trunk link route connecting the A9 to the A82.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the proposed Inverness trunk link route between the A9 and A82 should be designated as a new trunk road.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many rural development contracts have been awarded that include financial reward for the maintenance and enhancement of peatlands.

To ask the Scottish Executive how the NHS will be able to access capital funding from the Scottish Futures Trust.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many press releases have been issued by its Communications Directorate in each month since May 2007.

To ask the Scottish Executive what changes there have been in the provision of telephone services to its offices since May 2007.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it estimates that it owes to suppliers for the provision of goods and services and what action it is taking to speed up payment.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18765 by Stewart Maxwell on 18 December 2008, which local authorities it designates as being within the Glasgow travel-to-work...

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of sex offenders who completed a custodial sentence on 31 March 2008 and had been assessed during their sentence as suitable for participation in the...

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16681 by Kenny MacAskill on 27 October 2008, when information on the proportion of sex offenders having received...

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that when provision at the State Hospital is reduced to 140 beds there will be adequate provision in high, medium and low secure units...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many independent students (a) qualified for and (b) received an additional loan in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the total amount was of additional loans to independent students in each of the last five years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish students studying in the rest of the United Kingdom received (a) income assessed and (b) additional loans from the Student Awards Agency for...

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the impact on the Scottish economy of the reduction in VAT announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 24 November 2008.

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the economic impact of utilising the Scottish variable rate in reducing income tax.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much the remuneration package is for the chief executive of Transport Scotland, including any payments towards pension schemes, for 2008-09.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers it to be reconcilable with principles of good governance that the chief executive of Transport Scotland also chairs its board.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many board meetings of Transport Scotland there have been since May 2007 and what subjects were discussed at each meeting.

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions non-executive directors have been excluded from decisions of Transport Scotland and for what reasons.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the current term of office is of the chief executive of Transport Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive when the board of Transport Scotland will meet next and what subjects will be discussed.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the arrangements are for appointment of non-executive directors of Transport Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many vehicles are owned or leased by Transport Scotland and what action is being taken to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time equivalent staff are employed by Transport Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures Transport Scotland follows in the provision of information to ministers to enable them to make decisions.

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of decisions is devolved to Transport Scotland by ministers.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the value of each contract over £1 million let by Transport Scotland since May 2007, also showing which contracts were let by decisons of...

To ask the Scottish Executive what overseas visits have been undertaken by directors of Transport Scotland since May 2007 and at what cost.

To ask the Scottish Executive what methods of transport were used by directors of Transport Scotland when making official visits in 2007-08 and at what cost.

To ask the Scottish Executive what Transport Scotland’s budget was for (a) participation and (b) public relations in 2007-08.

To ask the Scottish Executive what consultants were employed or commissioned by Transport Scotland in 2007-08 and at what total cost.

To ask the Scottish Executive how and to whom the chief executive of Transport Scotland intimated his intention to retire and when the retirement will take effect.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the arrangements are for the appointment of a new chief executive of Transport Scotland.