To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30102 by Cathy Jamieson on 15 October 2002, with which local authorities it has held discussions on a pilot of specialist children's hearings to fast-track persistent offenders under 16 years old, as referred to in point one of the 10-point action plan set out in Scotland's Action Programme to Reduce Youth Crime 2002. I announced on 23 October that the fast-track hearing pilots will take place in Ayrshire, Dundee and East Lothian/Borders.