S1W-16379 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to ensure that every doctor undertakes regular vocational education and training to ensure that their standards and skills are maintained and kept up-to-date.

S1W-16388 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Executive what the current recommended levels are for the numbers of (a) specialist diabetes consultant physicians, (b) diabetologists and (c) specialist diabetes nurses; how many of each are currently in post, and what plans it has to increase the numbers up to the recommended levels, broken down by health board.

S1W-16394 John Scott: To ask the Scottish Executive when the "over 30 month" scheme for cattle will be reinstated. R

S1W-16395 Mr Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive when the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network will publish its guidelines regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

S1W-16396 Mr Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will scrutinise the guidelines from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in case of any bias towards drug therapy.

S1W-16397 Irene Oldfather: To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to support the electronics industry.

S1W-16398 Irene Oldfather: To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking regarding the recently announced redundancies at the USI plant in Irvine.

S1W-16399 Irene Oldfather: To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce a location for the Scottish Public Pensions Agency.

S1W-16400 Irene Oldfather: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-3083 by Angus MacKay on 8 March 2001, what progress it is making in its policy of public sector jobs dispersal.

S1W-16401 Irene Oldfather: To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making in expanding the engineering skills base in North Ayrshire.

S1W-16402 Kay Ullrich: To ask the Scottish Executive why question S1W-14344, lodged on 21 March 2001, did not receive a substantive answer until 18 June 2001 and whether this is an acceptable timescale.

S1W-16403 Richard Lochhead: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were employed specifically to work directly with young offenders in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority area.

S1W-16404 Nicola Sturgeon: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail those research grants awarded by the Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland (NRIS) in 2000 where the person conducting the research was a member of the NRIS.

S1W-16405 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive what adjustments were made to the Scottish assigned budget in (a) 2000-01 and (b) 2001-02 as a result of any differential movements in Scotland, compared with England, in the level of (i) public sector housing benefit, (ii) private sector housing benefit and (iii) council tax benefit being paid.

S1W-16406 Mr Murray Tosh: To ask the Scottish Executive what immunity the Crown enjoys in Scotland in respect of planning law and what plans it has for legislation to remove or amend Crown immunity in devolved areas.

S1W-16407 Mr John Farquhar Munro: To ask the Scottish Executive how many forms for the 2001 Census were printed in Gaelic; who was eligible to receive such forms, and whether it was an offence for someone able to write in English to complete a Gaelic census form.

S1W-16408 Mr John Farquhar Munro: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is an offence for an enumerator to divulge any information provided on a census form to a third party; if so, what the penalties are and what official complaints procedure exists for members of the public who wish to complain about enumerators or about the census form itself.

S1W-16409 Kate MacLean: To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to introduce for Scottish local authority elections, including by-elections, measures to assist disabled voters similar to those provided for in the Representation of the People Act.

S1W-16410 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding each local authority has contributed to its local area tourist board in each year since 1997.

S1W-16411 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive how many high profile or VIP visits to Edinburgh since 1 July 2000 have required the use of Lothian and Borders police resources.

S1W-16412 Mrs Mary Mulligan: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-13988 by Susan Deacon on 21 March 2000, what plans it has to gather information in the future on the amount spent by the NHSiS on the use of bank and agency nurses.

S1W-16413 Mrs Mary Mulligan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to encourage general practitioners not to operate as one-person practices.

S1W-16414 Mrs Mary Mulligan: To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to train more surgeons.

S1W-16415 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring it is undertaking of the current situation with the education budget of Scottish Borders Council.

S1W-16416 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any cuts in the provision of education services by Scottish Borders Council.

S1W-16417 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria have to be met for children with cerebral palsy to participate in mainstream education.

S1W-16418 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive what duties, within its social justice policy, are required of local authorities with regard to the provision of mainstream education for children with disabilities.

S1W-16419 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive whether additional funding will be made available to Scottish Borders Council if the consequence of the projected £3.9 million overspend in their education budget were to be cuts in staffing, school closures and cuts in the provision of other education services.

S1W-16420 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive which (a) Internet service provider and (b) Internet exchange it currently uses and, if this Internet exchange is not located in Scotland, what plans it has to change to an Internet service provider which uses a Scottish exchange, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

S1W-16421 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive which (a) Internet service provider and (b) Internet exchange is currently used by (i) Scottish Enterprise, (ii) Highlands and Islands Enterprise, (iii) visitscotland, (iv) each health board and (v) each local authority; whether, if some or all of these bodies do not currently use an Internet service provider which uses a Scottish internet exchange, it will encourage them to switch to a provider which uses a Scottish exchange and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

S1W-16422 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive whether using an Internet service provider which uses an Internet exchange located in Scotland can offer any financial benefits to Scottish public bodies and, if so, what these benefits are.

S1W-16423 Ms Sandra White: To ask the Scottish Executive whether any adjustments in the levels of revenue support grant for local authorities will be made as a result of the provisions in the Gaming Act (Variation of Fees) (No.2) (Scotland) Order 2001 (SSI 2001/230).

S1W-16424 Irene McGugan: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to safeguard users of the Skye Bridge following the move into provisional liquidation of the Independent Insurance Group, Skye Bridge Limited’s public liability insurers.

S1W-16425 Irene McGugan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether alternative public liability cover has been put in place in respect of the Skye Bridge following the move into provisional liquidation of the Independent Insurance Group and, if so, when these alternative arrangements were put in place.

S1W-16426 Irene McGugan: To ask the Scottish Executive which insurance company now provides public liability insurance cover in respect of the Skye Bridge.

S1W-16427 Irene McGugan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether there has been any period during which there was no public liability insurance cover in respect of the Skye Bridge.

S1W-16428 Irene McGugan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied that users of the Skye Bridge were sufficiently safeguarded by the public liability insurance cover in place before, during and after the move into provisional liquidation of the Independent Insurance Group.

S1W-16429 Irene McGugan: To ask the Scottish Executive what conditions regarding public liability insurance cover are contained in the contract with Skye Bridge Limited for the operation of the bridge.

S1W-16430 Mr Kenny MacAskill: To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has spent to date on setting up and running helplines connected with the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.