To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-27320 and S1W-27321 by Lewis Macdonald on 8 August 2002, why air travel between the islands and the Scottish mainland should be included in an island council's local concessionary travel scheme for blind people rather than in the national free concessionary travel scheme to allow blind people to travel throughout Scotland. The National Free Concessionary Blind Scheme is an amalgam of the 16 local concessionary travel schemes currently operating in Scotland.