S1W-12493 Alex Johnstone: To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that the movement of emergency vehicles travelling into Aberdeen from the north is not impeded due to any current traffic gridlock caused by the closure of the Grandholm Bridge.

S1W-12494 Mrs Margaret Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive how many children in the 12 to 13 age cohort received BCG vaccinations in 1998, 1999 and 2000 in each health board area and what percentage this figure represents of the school population in this age cohort.

S1W-12495 Mrs Margaret Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive what the current availability of the BCG vaccination is in health board areas and whether the targets of the Scottish Executive on availability are being met.

S1W-12496 Mrs Margaret Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of tuberculosis was in each health board area in each of the last three years.

S1W-12497 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to introduce a statutory obligation on local authorities to ensure the provision of free, impartial and independent (a) legal advice and information and (b) debt management advice and information throughout Scotland.

S1W-12498 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive whether its social inclusion strategy takes account of the role played by independent advice services in tackling social exclusion through the provision of free and impartial advice and information; if not, what role it believes such independent advice services have in tackling social exclusion, and how it sees this role fitting in with its policies.

S1W-12499 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive whether increased funding will be made available to Visitscotland, the British Tourist Authority or any other relevant organisation to market the Highlands as a tourist destination following the coverage generated by Madonna’s wedding and, if so, how much.

S1W-12500 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8803 by Sarah Boyack on 10 August 2000, whether the final draft of the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance has now been issued for consultation; if so, what the timescale is for the consultation period, and when a final version of the guidance will be published.

S1W-12501 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-2899 by Sarah Boyack on 13 January 2000, whether the route profiles of all routes in the trunk road network have now been updated and, if so, whether it will place a copy of the findings of this exercise in respect of each route in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.

S1W-12502 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-2904 by Sarah Boyack on 12 January 2000, whether it has published any estimates provided by local authorities in interim road traffic reduction reports; if not, whether it now considers it appropriate to do so, and when it will publish any such estimates.

S1W-12503 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-3850 by Sarah Boyack on 3 February 2000, which of the nine applications for Freight Facilities Grant being assessed at that time (a) have been funded (i) in full and (ii) in part, (b) are still under review, (c) were deferred and (d) were rejected.

S1W-12504 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-3850 by Sarah Boyack on 3 February 2000, whether it will list all applications for Freight Facilities Grant received since then, specifying in each case whether a decision has been reached and what each such decision was.

S1W-12505 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8809 by Sarah Boyack on 10 August 2000, whether the full business case for the Larkhall to Milngavie rail route project has been received and considered; whether a decision has been taken on the project’s suitability for level playing field support under the Public/Private Partnership arrangements; if so, whether it will announce that decision and, if not, when it expects a decision to be taken and an announcement made.

S1W-12506 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-6054 by Sarah Boyack on 20 April 2000, whether it is now able to provide details of how the Public/Private Partnership (PPP) proposed for the A77/M77 upgrade (Malletsheugh-Fenwick) will differ from that used for the Paddy’s Rickle Bridge-Cleuchbrae phase of the M74 and whether the A77/M77 PPP is intended to include operation and maintenance of any section of the A77/M77 corridor other than that to be constructed.

S1W-12507 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-6862 by Sarah Boyack on 22 June 2000, whether work in relation to the Kingston Bridge Phase 1 Strengthening contract has now been completed and when existing traffic restrictions on the bridge are expected to be lifted.

S1W-12508 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7186 by Sarah Boyack on 12 July 2000, whether the analysis of the 1997 survey of aggregate working has led to the drawing of any meaningful conclusions; if so, what these conclusions are, and when it expects to publish the results of the survey.

S1W-12509 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8375 by Sarah Boyack on 13 July 2000, whether the investigation into the cost and practical implications of ending the date-stamping on books of discount tickets for the Skye Bridge has been concluded and, if so, whether it will announce its decision on the ending of date-stamping.

S1W-12510 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8386 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 13 July 2000, whether it has now refined the precise funding mechanism that will apply to any cash incentives to be provided to tenants of social landlords and, if so, whether it will announce the criteria and related procedures which will apply.

S1W-12511 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8804 by Sarah Boyack on 25 August 2000, whether the work on the viability of the proposed Public/Private Partnership (PPP) in respect of the M77 Fenwick to Malletsheugh scheme has been completed; if so, whether tender documents for this PPP are expected to be issued and, if so, when.

S1W-12512 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-9470 by Rhona Brankin on 19 September 2000, whether the public local inquiry in relation to the application for scheduled monument consent for the conservation of Caisteal Tioram has taken place; if so, when a decision is expected and, if not, whether the arrangements for the inquiry are now finalised and when the inquiry will take place.

S1W-12514 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7985 by Sarah Boyack on 28 June 2000, whether it has now assessed the potential impact on the Scottish agricultural sector of the European Commission White Paper on Environmental Liability and, if so, what its assessment is.

S1W-12515 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7987 by Sarah Boyack on 28 June 2000, whether it has now sought or obtained a definition of the public interest groups who may be granted rights to act under the European Commission White Paper on Environmental Liability.

S1W-12516 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7988 by Sarah Boyack on 30 August 2000, whether it has now assessed the impact on Scottish industry of an extension of industry's liability beyond compliance with environmental legislation, as envisaged in the European Commission White Paper on Environmental Liability and, if so, what this assessment is.

S1W-12517 Irene McGugan: To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in respect of the recommendations in the report of the Advisory Group on Youth Crime.

S1W-12518 Irene McGugan: To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its document It’s a Criminal Waste: Stop Youth Crime Now, whether funding to local authorities has been reallocated to increase resources for criminal justice social work by £0.5 million in order to fund an extension of bail information and supervision schemes, and pilot diversion schemes, to all 16 and 17-year-olds.

S1W-12519 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities currently require tenants who are exercising their right to buy to take out a particular building insurance policy as a condition of buying their home and which of these authorities receive commissions from the insurance premiums generated.

S1W-12520 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether any conflict of interest exists where a local authority is factor of property in an area where there is a mixture of tenanted and owner-occupied property.

S1W-12521 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to undertake a review of how complaints from owner-occupiers of properties where the local authority is the factor are handled by the authority concerned.

S1W-12522 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether any conflict of interest exists where a local authority uses its own operatives to carry out repairs on owner-occupied property which it factors, rather than seek quotes on behalf of owners, given the factor’s responsibility to act in the owner’s best interest.

S1W-12523 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to assist local authorities in improving their planning systems.

S1W-12524 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to introduce a right of appeal for objectors to a particular planning development which has been approved.

S1W-12525 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the availability of venture capital finance to small businesses.

S1W-12526 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the economic and social consequences will be of delaying the construction of the M74 Northern Extension until the completion of a public inquiry and what the cost of the inquiry will be.

S1W-12527 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the earliest date is when the construction of the M74 Northern Extension can commence.

S1W-12528 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact will be on regeneration, land reclamation and investment of constructing a modified M74 Northern Extension without junctions.

S1W-12529 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive when an integrated digital network will be established in Scotland.

S1W-12530 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will respond to the report by the Federation of Small Businesses, Barriers to Growth and Survival, and, if so, when.

S1W-12531 Mr Lloyd Quinan: To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its consultation paper Affordability of Water and Sewerage Charges, what further consultation will take place, and whether any further consultation will include those not connected to the public water supply and those who have their septic tanks emptied by the local water authority.

S1W-12532 Bruce Crawford: To ask the Scottish Executive whether any of the £7 billion allocated to the rail modernisation fund will be included in the Scottish assigned budget as a result of the operation of the Barnett formula and, if not, what process is in place to allow bids to be made from Scotland for assistance from this fund.

S1W-12533 Michael Russell: To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the total cost of bringing Scotland’s school buildings up to an acceptable standard.

S1W-12534 Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any powers to declare a moratorium in respect of the planning notification by Forest Enterprise to establish a tourist village along the west shore of Loch Lubnaig in relation to (a) the fact that this area falls within the boundaries currently considered for Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park; (b) the existing designation of the shores of Loch Lubnaig as an area of Special Scientific Interest, and (c) the area’s impending designation as a Special Area of Conservation.

S1W-12535 Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received representations from the Stank Glen Residents’ Association in relation to the proposal by Forest Enterprise to establish a tourist village on the shores of Loch Lubnaig; if so, what response it has made or will make, and whether, if the area were at present designated as a national park, a planning application in relation to such a development would be likely to be rejected.

S1W-12536 Mr Alex Salmond: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7100 by Mr Jim Wallace on 7 June 2000, what (a) the basic staff requirement for officers and (b) the number of officers in post was for each prison on 31 December 2000.

S1W-12537 Mr John Munro: To ask the Scottish Executive how many proposed special areas of conservation it has formally considered and how many sites went on to be presented to the European Commission for approval.

S1W-12538 Mr John Munro: To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources it intends to make available for the management and protection of special areas of conservation.

S1W-12539 Dr Elaine Murray: To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made by the European Commission on proposals on the presence of GM seeds in the seed of conventional species.

S1W-12540 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11525 by Mr Jim Wallace on 10 January 2001, what the total annual cost per prisoner place at Kilmarnock Prison would be if it was calculated using the same methodology as is used to calculate annual costs per prisoner place in relation to Scottish Prison Service prisons and excluding any capital costs such as designing, construction and financing costs.

S1W-12541 Fergus Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning has received representations from a group of business people operating within the Lochaber area, comprising Alan Kirk of McTavish’s Kitchens, Stewart MacLean of Innseagan Holidays and 16 others, regarding proposals for the promotion of tourism in the area; if so, whether a meeting with the group will be arranged as a matter of urgency in order that their proposals could be implemented in relation to the 2001 season.