To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to review recently published GDP data and its implementation of the new chain-linking methodology for calculating Scottish GDP in light of the statement by Nicholas Crafts of the London School of Economics, reported in the Sunday Herald on 14 March 2004, that "if mortality risks in Scotland were overnight to fall to English levels, the consumption equivalent of the welfare gain would be #2912 per person, or 21.3% of the 2001 GDP".The member has provided the following Gaelic translation:A dh' fhaighneachd de Riaghaltas na h-Alba dh na ceumannan a bhios e a' gabhail gus ath-sgrydadh a dhhanamh air an d`ta GDP yr-fhoillsichte agus air an drigh anns a bheil e a' cur an gnlomh an drigh cheangail-slabhraidh yr gus GDP na h-Alba obrachadh a-mach, mar thoireadh air an aithris aig Nicholas Crafts ` Sgoil Eaconamachd Lunnainn, air an deach iomradh a thoirt anns an Sunday Herald 14 M...