To ask the Scottish Executive how many recipients of single farm payments for land in Scotland were individuals or companies from the rest of the (a) United Kingdom and (b) world in each of the...

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has produced concerning the welfare of children moved to Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of all official engagements undertaken at Bute House by Executive ministers since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of all official engagements undertaken at Bute House by the First Minister since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of all events attended by (a) the First Minister and (b) Executive ministers at Bute House since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many seizures of (a) heroin, (b) cocaine, (c) crack cocaine, (d) ecstasy and (e) cannabis took place in each police board area in each year since 1999, showing...

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to address under-representation of women in head teacher posts in secondary schools.

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to help tackle climate change.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated total levels of CO 2 emissions have been from all sources per head of population in Stirling in the last year for which information is available.

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of carbon dioxide emission reductions from the manufacturing and construction sector between 1990 and 2004 can be attributed to (a) improved energy...

To ask the Scottish Executive how the scale of carbon dioxide sinks from land use, land use change and forestry is calculated and whether the methodology for this calculation has changed since...

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to publish its next gender audit and how the findings will be used by each of its departments when implementing policy.

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to increase the number of women in local authority chief executive posts.

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it is providing to public sector organisations to assist them to comply with the gender equality duty.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether both the report of the Review of Access Criteria for Infertility and the Executives recommendations arising from the review will be published prior to...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) full-time and (b) retained fire fighters there were in each fire board area in each of the last five years, also expressed as a ratio to the population...

To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the extension of the weekly close time for salmon fishing in 1988, how the Executive defines the term "general conservation grounds" and what...

To ask the Scottish Executive why the extension of the weekly close time for salmon fishing in 1988 applied only to netting interests and not to angling interests.

To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to salmon netting rights that are the subject of private heritable title, why no compensation has been offered to those owners for measures that have...

To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is with regard to the (a) angling and (b) netting industries.

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on implementation of the Sea Fisheries Strategy since its launch.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people responded to the consultation on the Water of Leith flood prevention scheme that followed the public inquiry and, of these, how many supported (a)...

To ask the Scottish Executive how much public money has been spent on implementing the action plan for youth football.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been given to grassroots clubs under the action plan for youth football.

To ask the Scottish Executive what structures are in place to ensure that money allocated under the action plan for youth football is spent at grassroots level.

To ask the Scottish Executive who the members are of the public health network referred to by the Minister for Health and Community Care in a letter to me of 8 January 2007 and on what basis each...

To ask the Scottish Executive how much and what type of housing has been built on Rum in each of the last 20 years, also giving the permanent population of Rum in each of these years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) underweight and (b) premature babies were born in the last year for which figures are available and how many were born in 1997, broken down by NHS board.

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that all NHS boards implement the 2004 NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) guidelines recommending that all pregnant women...

To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of medical graduates left Scotland for their first posts in each of the last five years, broken down by medical school and category of...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list, for all ministerial engagements that have taken place since 1 September 2006, the locations visited.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the official visits made by Scottish ministers to Orkney since the inception of the Parliament.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultants were allowed to work in the NHS beyond retirement age in each year since 1990, broken down by (a) speciality and (b) NHS board.

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of police time was spent on frontline duties in each police force area in each year since 2003-04.

To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) percentage and (b) number of police officers are due to reach retiral age in each of the next five years, also broken down by police force.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are employed by agencies and non-departmental public bodies in Stirling.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the guidelines on the use of biometric systems in schools, currently being developed by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, will...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it expects local authorities to have sprinkler systems installed in newly built schools as a matter of best practice.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it issues guidance to local authorities on the installation of sprinkler systems in schools.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware that Argyll and Bute Council will not be installing a sprinkler system in the new Hermitage Academy.

To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate or best prediction is of the amount of end-year flexibility (EYF) for 2006-07 and 2007-08.

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of comments on 14 March 2007 by the Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning that the Executive had considered the mutualisation of Scottish...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will change its policy with regard to bursaries for social work courses in line with decisions made in England and Wales.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much severance pay was provided to political advisers who left the civil service in each year since 1999.

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in providing a single system of transcription of reading materials for blind or partially sighted people and whether it has been in contact...

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans for the development of a waste incinerator in the Forth Valley area.

To ask the Scottish Executive when its decisions on each of the strategic outline cases on National Waste Plan funding, published in May 2006, will be made public.

To ask the Scottish Executive what total amount of waste, including waste recycled, was handled by each local authority in each year from 1999 to 2006.

To ask the Scottish Executive how much (a) plastic, (b) glass, (c) metal, (d) paper and (e) compostable material was recycled by each local authority in the most recent year for which information...

To ask the Scottish Executive how much waste went to landfill in each year from 1999 to 2006, broken down by local authority area.

To ask the Scottish Executive in which local authority areas there are outline proposals to site thermal waste treatment facilities.

To ask the Scottish Executive what studies have been carried out to examine the energy content of residual waste once all cyclables have been removed.