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To ask the Scottish Executive how many hectares of hill land are no longer being grazed by sheep, broken down by SEERAD area office, and what the comparative figures were for (a) 1990 and (b) 2000.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were sentenced to custody as a result of convictions for carrying a knife in (a) Scotland, (b) Aberdeen, (c) Dundee, (d) Edinburgh, (e) Glasgow and (f) Stirling in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses in the social rented sector were sold under right to buy in each of the 32 local authority areas in (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005.
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14 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children with learning difficulties were excluded from school in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) local authority, (b) primary school and (c) secondary school.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been paid from the Rural Public Passenger Transport Grants scheme in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area; how many applications for funding have been rejected in the same timescale, and what the total value was of these applications.
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9 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cubic metres of (a) soft wood and (b) hardwood timber it estimates will be economically recoverable from Scottish forests in each of the next 30 years.
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18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been arrested for drug-driving offences in each of the last five years, including 2006, broken down by police force area and showing year-on-year percentage changes.
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15 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of (a) smoking and (b) alcohol-related conditions were treated in (i) 1997 and (ii) the most recent year for which information is available; what the cost of treatment was in each year, and what estimate it has made of the cost to the economy of such incidents.
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8 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) men and (b) women have been prosecuted for domestic violence in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area.
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21 November 2005
The handbook on child protection in education, Safe and Well (2005), reiterated the importance of ensuring good practice and of training for staff in safe techniques in settings where restraint may be necessary. Many education authorities use training programmes such as CALM or Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for their staff.Safe and Well also provides advi...