S1W-4643 Johann Lamont: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-3539 by Iain Gray on 11 February 2000, whether it will publicise what percentage of the £43 million new monies made available for social work in 2000-01 was allocated to each local authority and the criteria under which the allocations were made.

S1W-4644 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many saline and glucose bags were purchased by each health board and what was the cost in the most recent year for which figures are available.

S1W-4645 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that all health boards include epilepsy care and treatment in their health improvement plans and develop a managed clinical network of epilepsy services.

S1W-4646 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what guidelines it will issue to schools on epilepsy awareness training, dealing effectively with seizures and the administration, where necessary, of rectal diazepam.

S1W-4647 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government that the proposed additional tobacco taxes raised in Scotland as part of the "tobacco escalator" will be hypothecated to the Scottish Executive to provide additional resources for the NHS.

S1W-4648 Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty’s Government regarding adverse consequences for rural communities in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands and Islands, of any increase in excise duty or VAT on fuel in the budget in March 2000.

S1W-4650 Tricia Marwick: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the newly appointed Lord Advocate was in charge of the preparations for the European Convention on Human Rights within the Crown Office.

S1W-4651 Mr John McAllion: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will include detailed measures for the eradication of fuel poverty within a specific timescale in the forthcoming Housing Bill.

S1W-4652 Shona Robison: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of (a) the expenditure incurred to date and (b) the likely expenditure to be incurred by each local authority in the current financial year in relation to (i) Kosovan evacuees; (ii) adult asylum seekers; (iii) children of asylum seekers and (iv) unaccompanied children seeking asylum.

S1W-4653 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding it is proposing to allocate for research into and prevention of cardiomyopathy.

S1W-4654 Tavish Scott: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the monitoring routinely carried out by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to assess the levels of radioactive contamination reaching Scottish air, land and sea as a result of discharges into the environment from the nuclear plant at Sellafield.

S1W-4655 Tavish Scott: To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in the light of the recent reports by the Her Majesty’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate into the operation of the nuclear plant at Sellafield, it has made or plans to make representations to Her Majesty's Government to take any steps needed as a matter of urgency to ensure the safety of the Scottish environment.

S1W-4656 Tavish Scott: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Her Majesty’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate meet on a regular basis to discuss the operation of nuclear plants in Scotland to ensure that any risk to the Scottish environment from the operations of the plants is minimised.

S1W-4657 Tavish Scott: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied that the Scottish environment is adequately protected through the role of Her Majesty’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate in supervising the operations of the nuclear plant at Sellafield, particularly in the light of the recent report by the Inspectorate on the plant.

S1W-4658 Tavish Scott: To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met Her Majesty's Government to discuss the implications for Scotland’s environment of the operation of nuclear plants in Scotland.

S1W-4659 Tavish Scott: To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met Her Majesty's Government to discuss the implications for Scotland’s environment of the operations of nuclear plants in England and Wales.

S1W-4660 Tavish Scott: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied that the Scottish environment is adequately protected through the role of Her Majesty’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate in supervising the operations at nuclear plants in Scotland particularly in the light of the recent report by the Inspectorate on the Sellafield plant.

S1W-4661 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive what response the National Roads Directorate has given to South Ayrshire Council in connection with the current planning application to develop housing at Coodham Estate, Symington, how this response differs from that given by the Scottish Office National Roads Directorate in 1998 to Planning Application 98/01223, and what the reasons are for any modification in the current consultation response.

S1W-4662 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4229 by Sarah Boyack on 18 February 2000, whether it will put its response to the formal UK consultation process to (a) the Parliament and (b) the Transport and the Environment Committee for consideration and whether it will make representations to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions to invite the Parliament to respond directly and separately from the Scottish Executive.

S1W-4663 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive how much each parliamentary constituency received in lottery funding for the last year for which figures are available.

S1W-4664 Mr Duncan Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Executive what is the current model of funding of the Councils of Voluntary Services, what are the models proposed under the current review and when it will publish its response to the review.

S1W-4665 Shona Robison: To ask the Scottish Executive what effect a decision by Her Majesty’s Government to remove benefit payments from Post Offices will have on its social inclusion policy.

S1W-4666 Mrs Margaret Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to instruct the Scottish Ambulance Service to move to a priority dispatch system.

S1W-4667 Mrs Margaret Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4098 by Susan Deacon on 15 February 2000, when it anticipates that the working group to identify the minimum datasets relating to the health and safety of NHS staff will be able to report back.

S1W-4668 Mrs Margaret Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4098 by Susan Deacon on 15 February 2000, whether it intends to use the datasets established by the working group in order to audit centrally the number of attacks on staff in the NHS.

S1W-4669 Mrs Margaret Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4098 by Susan Deacon on 15 February 2000, whether the minimum datasets established by the working group relating to health and safety of NHS staff will be published.

S1W-4670 Johann Lamont: To ask the Scottish Executive how many outstanding breaches of community service orders and probation orders are currently waiting to be dealt with by the courts.

S1W-4671 Johann Lamont: To ask the Scottish Executive what is the average length of time taken to process a breach of (a) a probation order and (b) a community service order through the Sheriff court.

S1W-4672 Johann Lamont: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to speed up the process of dealing with breaches of community service and probation orders.

S1W-4673 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers Professor David Rowley to be an impartial and objective member of the Scottish Review team in relation to the funding position in Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust, given his role as head of orthopaedics at Ninewells Hospital Dundee, non-executive member of the Tayside Health Board and chairman of Tayside Acute services review (phase 2).

S1W-4674 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to consult with the pharmaceutical professions regarding the greater participation in health service delivery by both community and hospital pharmacists.

S1W-4675 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to answer parliamentary question S1W-2735, lodged on 23 November 1999, and in view of this delay, whether, when it provides this answer, it will provide information relating to the number of substantive answers to parliamentary questions lodged before the end of December 1999 which are still outstanding, rather than questions lodged before the end of September 1999 as originally requested.

S1W-4676 Tommy Sheridan: To ask the Scottish Executive what amount of money must be involved in cases of alleged fraud in order to trigger a police investigation in each police authority area; why such limits are imposed, and why these limits vary between police authority areas.

S1W-4677 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to further utilise the skills and knowledge of community pharmacists in Scotland and whether these plans include greater integration of community pharmacists into healthcare provision.

S1W-4678 Bill Aitken: To ask the Scottish Executive (a) what were the total costs of the publication (design, photocopying, printing, internet connection of text, distribution and costs of launch) of Social Justice…a Scotland where everyone matters including the Milestone Sources and Definitions booklet and (b) how many copies of each of the documents were printed, who they were initially distributed to and how many additional copies have been requested and by whom.

S1W-4679 Mr Keith Harding: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the number of surgeons and oncologists specialising in lung cancer for each health board.

S1W-4681 Mr David Davidson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to supply emergency hormonal contraception through pharmacies.

S1W-4682 Mr Duncan Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is available in 1999-2000 and 2000-01 from it and local authorities to train (a) lip-readers and (b) teachers of lip-reading.

S1W-4683 Mr Duncan Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Executive how many lip-reading tutors there are.

S1W-4684 Mr Duncan Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Executive what support, financial or otherwise, is available to students enrolled on the "Association of Teachers of Lip-Reading to Adult Recognition" course at Donaldson’s College, Edinburgh.

S1W-4685 Mr Duncan Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Executive what publicity is currently funded by it or any other publicly funded body to promote awareness of lip-reading.

S1W-4686 Mr Duncan Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance or training is given to GPs, audiologists, social workers and ear, nose and throat specialists to allow them to correctly identify those who would benefit from being able to lip-read.

S1W-4687 Mr Duncan Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Executive to specify each health board’s real terms increase in funding for 2000-01 and 2001-02, compared with 1999-2000, expressed in both monetary and percentage terms.

S1W-4688 Mr Duncan Hamilton: To ask the Scottish Executive further to the answer to question S1W-3920 by Susan Deacon on 9 February 2000, whether it will give a breakdown of the average number of available staffed beds, excluding beds in non-NHS locations, by bed types as detailed in Scottish Health Statistics Table M4.1 for each quarter from the period ended 31 March 1997 to the latest period available.

S1W-4689 Mr Lloyd Quinan: To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received from Argyll and Clyde Acute Hospital NHS Trust regarding the Trust’s proposed recovery plan.