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Invitations to discuss the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty were not sought.

We have no plans to introduce polyclinics in Scotland. The Better Health, Better Care Action Plan, published in December 2007, sets out our objectives to improve access in primary care settings in Scotland.

We are working with the existing model of general practice and the wider primary care team, including community pharmacy led services, to deliver these objectives in a way that is appropriate to Scotland''s needs.

Architecture and Design Scotland has a national responsibility to carry out design review, generally on projects of strategic significance, and this is set out in Scottish Planning Policy 20.

It is for local authorities to determine the need for local design review panels and their scope and remit. The definition of what constitutes a local design review panel is thus open to interpretation. Currently, Glasgow City Council has a formal local design review panel which draws upon independent external expertise: City of Edinburgh Council has an internal design surgery, Scottish Borders Council has an internal peer review panel, and Dundee City Council has a design review panel for work specific to its waterfront regeneration project.

The Scottish Government''s Internal Audit Division works to Government Internal Audit Standards (GIAS) drawn up by HM Treasury in consultation with UK Departments, including the devolved administrations. That is set out in the Internal Audit section of the Scottish Public Finance Manual. The GIAS standards draw heavily on the standards set by the Institute of Internal Auditors “ UK and Ireland, which forms part of the global Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) who set the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing. Our internal auditors work closely with the IIA and the Treasury in the development, revision and application of the relevant standards, and as our primary training route is towards IIA qualifications, our audit staff are required to comply with the standards.

With regard to the implementation of revisions to external audit standards, that is primarily a matter for the Auditor General for Scotland.

Guidance has been issued to all public bodies in Scotland which explains how the principles of fair trade and ethical trading can be supported in public procurement, for example by working with suppliers after contracts have been awarded. Guidance has also been issued to all public bodies in Scotland on how to incorporate social issues into public procurement.

The Scottish Government has issued guidance on fair and ethical trading to public sector buyers. Suppliers to the Scottish public sector are expected to maintain high standards of business and professional conduct e.g. in relation to legislative requirements on the environment, equal opportunities, race relations, health and safety, employment and taxation. Where bidders fail to comply with relevant legal obligations they can be excluded from competition on grounds of their unsuitability.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-7948 on 8 January 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

The Scottish Police Services Authority has been allocated grant-in-aid of £83.6 million in 2008-09. It has also been given a provisional allocation of £84.2 million in 2009-10 and £84.7 million in 2010-11 but these figures should be considered to be indicative only at this stage. The figures provided exclude provision for police information and communication technology services as the transfer amount from police local authority funding has yet to be determined.

The number of patients resident in Scotland listed in the UK for an organ transplant and the median waiting time, in days, on the active list, for adults in the UK, is as follows.

	Scottish Residents Currently on the UK Transplant List			Median (Active) Time (in Days) to Transplant, UK - Adult
Organ	Active	Suspended	Total
Kidney	613	142	755	841
Kidney/Pancreas	10	4	14	265
Heart	6	-	6	103
Lung(s)	18	-	18	406
Liver	24	-	24	95
Total	671	146	817

Note: There is also one patient listed for a pancreas-only transplant.

Scottish ministers have now officially opened nine new schools since May 2007, as detailed in the following table.

School	Date
Strathallan Primary, Kirkcaldy	22 June 2007
Simpson Primary, Bathgate	28 September 2007
Windygoul Primary, Tranent	14 November 2007
Bun-sgoil Ghaidhlig Primary, Inverness	11 January 2008
Mauchline Primary	25 January 2008
Rothesay Campus	10 March 2008
Lochgilphead Campus	9 May 2008
Greenwood Academy, Irvine	14 May 2008
St Matthew''s Academy, Saltcoats	21 May 2008