To ask the Scottish Executive whether it estimates that the number of unemployed persons in the three Local Enterprise Council areas of Inverness and Nairn, Ross and Cromarty and Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey which totalled 4,738 as at September 1999 will increase and, if so, what its estimates are of the number in these areas in January, February, March, April, May, June and July of 2000. The Scottish Executive does not produce forecasts of unemployment either for local areas or for Scotland as a whole.