To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8790 by Susan Deacon on 20 November 2000, what response it has had from the Child Health Sub-Group of the National Screening Committee regarding the letter from W J McKenna, Professor of Cardiac Medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London regarding the likely incidence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The points made by Professor McKenna regarding the likely incidence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy will be amongst the information considered by the Child Health Sub-Group of the National Screening Committee in their regular review of their advice on this topic.