To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Transport will explore the suggestion by the Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform, reported in the Press and Journal on 21 November 2006, that “the air discount scheme is a model which needs to be examined further in the context of ferry fares”; whether the Executive is investigating the application of a similar discount scheme to any of Scotland’s ferry routes, and how such a scheme could be implemented, in light of the answer to question S2W-23204 by Tavish Scott on 7 March 2006 indicating that under the European Union state aid rules “aid of a social character” cannot be combined with other types of aid or assistance...