To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-14523 by Ross Finnie on 10 April 2001, what discussions it had with public and environmental health officials prior to the establishment of the burial site at Birkshaw Forest. The decision to utilise the site at Birkshaw as a burial site was taken in consultation with senior officials of Dumfries & Galloway Council, which has responsibility for public and environmental health locally, and with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.