To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, further to the answer to question S2W-1861 by Mr Duncan McNeil on 28 August 2003, whether any MSPs' staff have been adversely affected by the decision to cease making pension payments by direct debit and, if so, whether any details of any such cases were reported to the SPCB. In total to date there havebeen 10 members’ staff (9 with plans with one provider and 1 with a plan withanother provider) affected by the decision to cease making pensioncontributions from the Parliament’s bank account by direct debit.