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This information is available from Greater Glasgow Primary Care Trust, who are responsible for ensuring that local services for dementia sufferers are safe, of high quality, and meet the needs of users.

A substantial proportion of the Health Education Board for Scotland's (HEBS) budget is devoted to anti-smoking measures. However, while activity in relation to passive smoking is an integral component of the HEBS anti-smoking strategy, it is not possible to separately identify the costs of that work.

No publications by the Scottish Executive's Social Inclusion Division have referred people to the Citizens Advice Bureau service for advice and assistance.

The Scottish Executive has been kept informed by Scottish Enterprise and the Millennium Commission of financial issues at the Glasgow Science Centre.

The Executive wants to see a joined-up, user-friendly and quality-assured network of legal information and advice for the people of Scotland. That is the ultimate objective behind the programme of work I announced back on 22 May. In that context, it will be important for all organisations involved in providing advice to work together co-operatively, in the interests of their clients, many of whom are among our most vulnerable people, and in particular for strong and effective referral networks to be established.

On 22 May, I announced a practical programme of development work to take forward the recommendations of the Review of Legal Information and Advice Provision in Scotland published last November. That programme includes the creation of four pilot partnerships, in different locations across the country, to look at local advice needs and service provision; a national needs assessment exercise; a review of the Scottish Legal Aid Board's advice and assistance scheme, and a review of innovative service delivery mechanisms. Work is in hand on all of these. The programme will provide the information the Executive needs to take a more strategic approach to legal advice and information, with the ultimate aim of improving access to justice by creating a more joined-up, quality-assured and user-friendly network of advice, information and help across the country.

The Scottish Executive has no current plans for further electrification of the rail network in Scotland.

The Scottish Executive has not committed any future financial support to the Glasgow Science Centre.

This is a matter for the Glasgow Science Centre and its funders.

I am pleased that we have been able to directly support the Scottish Youth Parliament, the Young Scot youth information service and the National Youth Portal, Scotland's first interactive Youth Website. These all play a major role in informing and encouraging the active participation of young people in Scotland. In addition, Connect Youth, which supports local youth fora throughout Scotland is co-ordinated by YouthLink Scotland, which receives Scottish Executive funding.In schools, the 5-14 Programme offers a number of opportunities for pupils to learn about citizenship education under personal and social development, religious and moral education and, in particular, under social subjects within environmental studies. Schools are also asked to set out in their annual school development plans how they have consulted pupils and involved them in decision making. Examples of interesting ways in which the consultation and involvement of decision making is being carried out will be put on the National Priorities website where shared information across authorities and schools is being held.Following publication of their report Education for Citizenship in Scotland: A Paper for Discussion and Development, we have asked Learning and Teaching Scotland to consider the most effective means of taking forward the report's recommendations. This will form the basis for a national framework for education for citizenship for 3- to 18-year-olds.