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The areas in which the Home Insulation Scheme will be deployed in 2010-11 have not yet been selected.

The proportion of households eligible for free insulation measures will depend on a range of factors including the eligibility criteria agreed and the characteristics of the areas selected.

Aspects of the Home Insulation Scheme, including eligibility for free or reduced cost measures, are still being finalised.

The number of insulation measures installed in 2009-10 will depend on a range of factors including the eligibility criteria agreed and the characteristics of the areas selected.

The Minister for Transport, Infrastructure & Climate Change attended the British-Irish Council meeting of 17 April 2009, at which the Irish and Manx governments were present, and during which the issue of the Sellafield nuclear power plant was raised.

Ministers from the Irish and Manx Governments advised that they are close to completing a revised joint paper on Sellafield and radioactive waste. The paper will address current operations at Sellafield, the safety of those operations, the final disposal of radioactive waste and the control of environmental discharges. This topic will be given fuller discussion at the next ministerial level meeting of the council in 2010, at which Scottish ministers will be present.

The next summit meeting of the British-Irish Council is scheduled to take place in October in Jersey; however the agenda is yet to be determined.

All sectors of the economy, including domestic and international aviation, have a collective role in delivering the 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 required by the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill. That is why we have taken the world-leading step of committing to include from the start the Scottish share of emissions from international aviation in our emissions reduction targets.

We also recognise that air links support Scotland''s economy, including business and tourism, and perform a very important social function, particularly in the Highlands and Islands. We are, therefore, pursuing a balanced approach which recognises the economic, social and environmental impact of aviation in Scotland.

Existing law safeguards and permits lawful protest. In doing so it strikes a balance between protecting the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly with the rights of the wider community to go about their daily lives safely and without undue disruption. We look to local authorities, the police and other agencies to use their discretion at a local level to ensure that this balance is maintained in respect of individual events.

The information requested is not available. Surveillance is undertaken on the basis of necessity and proportionality; not on the basis of individual political motivation. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act 2000 provides that surveillance may only be conducted:

for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime;

for the purpose of preventing disorder;

for the purpose of protecting public health, or

if it is in the interests of protecting public safety.

The use of police informants is an established part of policing and is overseen by the independent Office of the Surveillance Commissioner. Individual operational decisions are a matter for the relevant police force.