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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it uses independent observers in order to determine how many dolphins and other cetaceans are caught accidentally in trawlers' nets.
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to action points D2 and D3 of the report Supporting Active Communities in Scotland - A Draft Strategy for Volunteering and Community Action, how many public access points that disseminate information about volunteering opportunities are available.
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14 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many contracts, and to what value, it has awarded to (a) Arthur Andersen, (b) Deloitte & Touche, (c) Ernst & Young, (d) KPMG and (e) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 1997.
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13 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff it has seconded to (a) the European Union and (b) Her Majesty's Government, indicating the institution and department respectively in each case both (i) in this year and (ii) in each of the last three years.
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30 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children left school in the West Lothian area without attaining a standard grade in (a) English, (b) Mathematics and (c) English and Mathematics in each academic year since 1996.
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24 January 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer how many advertisements for posts within the Parliament have been placed in publications outwith Scotland in each of the past three years and in the current year; what the cost was in each year, and in what publications the advertisements were placed.
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21 December 2001
In Scotland, New Deal for Lone Parents has helped almost 13,300 lone parents to find work by September 2001.The Scottish Executive launched in July a new £24 million package of initiatives which aims to encourage lone parents into Scotland's universities and colleges by making it easier for them to meet the childcare costs that prevent many from taking that...
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11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applicants to the June 2001 meeting of the interim Selection Board for judicial appointment (a) were women, (b) were from an ethnic minority, (c) held a degree from the University of Cambridge or the University of Oxford, (d) had an ascendant who holds or has held judicial office in Scotland and (e) attended a State s...
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3 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people who left the care system in each of the past five years were given advice and assistance under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, broken down by local authority.