To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the first supplementary question to question S2O-229 by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 June 2003 (Official Report, c 968-969), on what issues it has sought legal advice in respect of interpreting the Scotland Act 1998 in order to assist negotiations with Her Majesty's Government about financial assistance for people infected with hepatitis C through contaminated blood and blood products while undergoing NHS treatment.