To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16757 by Susan Deacon on 31 July 2001, how and by whom the UK representatives on the EU Social Protection Committee will be informed of Scottish Executive interests; what these interests are, and how these interests will be conveyed to the committee if these interests do not concur with those of the UK. Arrangements for liaison between the UK Government and the Scottish Executive on EU issues are set out in the Concordat on co-ordination of EU policy issues.