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Yes, further applications for grant will be accepted providing the applicant is using the house as their only or main residence.

The grant for the heating system will cover the main living areas in the home; being the living room, the hall, the bathroom and the main bedroom(s). There will be no additional charge for this work if it exceeds £2,500, but a pensioner may pay to extend the system beyond these main living areas if he or she wishes to do so.

The information is not available in the form requested. Allocations of resources have been made for 2001-02, and allocations for future years will be made at the appropriate time, taking account of progress towards the target.

The information is not available at this time, but the numbers will depend upon the approaches taken by Glasgow City Council in respect of council stock and the Managing Agent in respect of stock in the private sector.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17123 on 21 August 2001.

A breakdown of this information by local authority area is not available.

The Scottish Executive does not operate any specific policies to influence the overall size or age structure of the population. Long-term planning aims to be sufficiently flexible to cope with change in these. However, our Framework for Economic Development in Scotland (laid before the Parliament in June 2000) is focused on instilling a greater economic dynamism that should attract skilled people to stay, return or settle here.

A pensioner is a person who is aged 60 or over.

The Scottish Executive remains committed to achieving a ban on tobacco advertising and promotion. We recognise, however, that such a ban is just one element of a wide range of measures that together, will help reduce the incidence and impact of smoking. The Scottish Executive is continuing to take forward action to implement the 1998 White Paper Smoking Kills and is working with a range of organisations to make progress on several fronts:

• NRT and Zyban are now available on prescription.
• Additional funding to improve and expand smoking cessation services and health education.
• A Scottish Voluntary Charter for the introduction of non-smoking areas in public places.
• The Lord Advocate is currently undertaking a review of test purchasing policy, linked to enforcement procedures for a range of age-restricted goods including tobacco.

The Scottish Executive is working with the UK Government in taking forward the implementation of the recent EU Directive on additives and labelling of tobacco.

The Executive is taking forward a range of measures to reduce smoking levels and the appeal of smoking among young people.These include health education and promotion of a holistic approach to healthy lifestyles, for example the "Confidence to Learn" training package being developed by HEBS for primary school teachers in order to help younger children to develop decision-making skills and the ability to cope with peer pressure. In addition "Young Scot" have produced a pack aimed at teenagersteenagers to encourage healthy lifestyles including advice on smoking.HEBS has undertaken mass media advertising, including the highly acclaimed STINX advertisment, aimed at teenagers, which promotes the message that smoking is neither healthy nor "cool".A new advert and competition will be launched at the beginning of the school year. An element of the £26 million Health Improvement Fund, which was announced last August, will be used for a major education drive to cut the number of young people smoking.The new "Aliens" advert and competition, which was launched on 16 August, builds on the success of STiNX by continuing the continues the anti-smoking driveanti-smoking drive.Other measures to reduce smoking among young people, including a major education drive, are being developed, backed by additional investment from the Health Improvement Fund.