To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve council tax collection rates by (a) discontinuing joint billing of water and sewerage charges with council tax; (b) allowing the statutory instalment scheme to commence in April; (c) allowing local authorities to issue a combined reminder and final notice; (d) giving councils the right to refuse to sell council housing to tenants with outstanding council tax arrears; (e) giving councils the right to bill and collect rent and council tax jointly and (f) implementing other recommendations made in the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities' recently published report It Pays to Pay.