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To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the article by Douglas Friedli in Business AM on 26 June 2002, whether its strategy on the creation of a knowledge economy will be changed following research by Strathclyde University suggesting a divergence between the industries on which the strategy focuses and those that use skilled staff and technology mos...
To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanism and procedure it has in place to target specific sectors of the population who may be especially at risk from fuel poverty.
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers it has to vary the selected list or prevent a medicine or class of medicines from being provided on the NHS and whether it has used such powers and, if so, when.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies for consultants in the West Lothian Healthcare NHS Trust area there are, broken down by speciality and whether it expects this number to reduce and, if so, how, when and by how much.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to place a time limit on delayed discharge patients remaining in hospital which, if breached, would then result in responsibility for the patient solely resting with either the local authority, the NHS board or some other agency.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to improve the management of mental health problems in light of the report by the Primary Care Modernisation Group, Making the Connections: Developing Best Practice into Common Practice.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of the total number of primary school teachers employed in each of the past ten years were (a) male and (b) female.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will decide on the suitability for employment as teachers in Scotland of those who hold the English Quality Teacher Status qualification.
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will consider taking in respect of the use of restorative justice models in order to encourage effective work against re-offending.