To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of a recent report that Dr Peter Fletcher, former Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health and Assessor to the Committee on the Safety of Medicines, previously responsible for deciding whether new vaccines were safe, believes that at least part of the “extremely worrying increase” in inflammatory bowel disease and immune disorders among children “is highly likely” to be a vaccine related problem (a) what urgent action is planned to prioritise the comprehensive gastro-enterological examination of autistic children and (b) how many...