Petition by Parisa Tadjali, on behalf of Ayrshire Ice Skaters, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure the continuous provision of local leisure facilities and that such facilities are not closed to make way for new housing or supermarket developments without equivalent local facilities also being provided.

Petition by Bill McCulloch, on behalf of the Billy Liddell Memorial Campaign, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to consider what support and assistance can be provided to local authorities to erect lasting memorials to local sporting legends.

Petition by John C Muir calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce mandatory sentencing for persons found carrying knives or other dangerous weapons in public

Petition by Maria Lynch calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to indicate how it ensures that Scotland’s colleges and universities deliver, through best value public funding, relevant and quality further education courses as sought by local communities and whether the standards of accountability should be reviewed to encourage better management of financial resources.

Petition by Margaret Forbes, on behalf of Scottish Women Against Pornography, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce and enforce measures that ensure that magazines and newspapers containing sexually graphic covers are not displayed at children’s eye-level or below or adjacent to children’s titles and comics and should be screen sleeved before being placed on the shelf.

Petition by Christine McNally, on behalf of Clydesdale Befriending Group and other supporting organisations, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to recognise and promote the positive impacts that befriending services for adults with learning disabilities have on its Same As You Strategy and to ensure the provision of adequate funding to support befriending opportunities and promote social inclusion.

Petition by Elaine Ramsay calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the Graduate Endowment Abolition (Scotland) Act 2008, due to the unfair financial burden it places on all graduates, particularly those who continued with post graduate study after April 2007 to seek vocational training.

Petition by Gregor Hamilton calling on the Scottish Parliament to invite Audit Scotland to conduct, without delay, an economy, efficiency and effectiveness audit of the office of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman.

Petition by Sally Ann Elfverson, on behalf of the Learning Disability Alliance Scotland, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the National Concessionary Travel Scheme to ensure that people receiving the lower rates of the mobility and care components of Disability Living Allowance are eligible for a National Entitlement Card.

Petition by Mrs S Kozak calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to provide NHS Scotland and other relevant organisations and individuals, including veterans of the Gulf War in 1991, with all necessary information and facilities in order that veterans exposed to nerve agents and their preventative medications are assessed, advised and treated appropriately and fatalities are prevented.

Petition by Kevin Hutchens, on behalf of Aberdeen Trades Union Council, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to review whether it is making adequate and sufficient funding available to local authorities for the provision of public and voluntary sector services

Petition by Jimmy Deuchars, on behalf of Grandparents Apart Self Help Group Scotland, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to review the administration of child and family law services to ensure they are operating in the best interests of the child.

Petition by Elizabeth Cooper calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the law to ensure that young people aged between 10 and 18 charged with serious offences are tried by the criminal justice system rather than the children’s hearing system

Petition by Mary McIlroy Hipwell calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 to allow a person, in their will, to leave their whole estate to a surviving spouse or civil partner and to abolish the right of adult children to then claim on that estate

Petition by Robert Kyle calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to allocate funding for the provision of permanent CCTV facilities in communities subjected to significant levels of crime.

Petition by Wilma Gunn, (founder and chairperson) on behalf of Scottish HART, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to undertake a review into the need to establish a national heart screening programme for young people taking part in sport and families at risk and a national screening council to oversee such a programme.

Petition by David Wemyss, on behalf of Aberdeen Prison Visiting Committee, calling on the Scottish parliament to urge the Scottish Government to consider whether large prisons remote from prisoners’ families offer the best way of rehabilitating offenders or whether, as an alternative, localised community prisons should be supported much more strongly to maintain genuinely easy access to family links and other community virtues.

Petition by Kenny Shand, on behalf of Disability Help Scotland, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce legislation to allow for parking bays for disabled drivers with mobility impairments, for example outside that person’s home, to be allocated to the person who made the application and for such bays to be legally enforceable.

Petition by Sam Coulter calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure the continued provision of local community libraries and the vital social and educational role they serve within the local community.

Petition by Mrs Annmargaret Watson, on behalf of Fire Reforms Actions Group, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to review current legislation to ensure that each local authority is represented on the fire service joint board to ensure that board decisions reflect local concerns and views and to revise legislation which prevents local authorities from increasing fire cover without full joint board authorisation and to bring this into line with police service cover

Petition by Jennifer Newman calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to review the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme with the Home Office to allow overseas students on the scheme to stay and work in Scotland for an extended period at the conclusion of their academic studies without the need for a work permit and, as a result, ensure greater benefits for all concerned given the amounts of public funding spent training such individuals.

Petition by Dr Alexander Gemmell calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce a statutory deposit and return scheme on all used beverage containers.

Petition by Ross Ingebrigtsen, on behalf of dotSCO, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to give full support to the dotSCO application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to introduce a standard ".sco" top level domain name in order to enhance Scotland's distinct languages, culture and identity, and for use by all Scottish public bodies.

Petition by Carol Ann Bowmaker calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend all relevant legislation to ensure that private tenants have a right to be notified when their landlord has applied for planning permission to demolish their home and that planning permission is not granted and notices to quit are not issued to a tenant when outstanding repairing standard enforcement notices exist on the property.

Petition by Rev Jock Stein, on behalf of Dunfermline Presbytery, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to continue the scheme of relief and exemption of charities and churches from water and sewerage charges beyond 2010.

Petition by Myles Fitzpatrick calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to consider whether it is satisfied with the policy and guidance issued by it under which NHS Boards may destroy a patients’ medical records and whether this policy in any way hinders the right of an individual whose records have been destroyed to then access medical treatment on the NHS.

Petition by Alasdair Ferguson, on behalf of the A82 Partnership, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to immediately begin phased improvements to the A82 Tarbet to Fort William road to improve safety and bring this trans-European lifeline route to a standard fit for the 21st century.

Petition by John Quigley, on behalf of Unite – the Union, calling on the Scottish parliament to urge the Scottish Government to retain the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board as a separate body and to expand its remit to cover all workers in the agricultural sector including those in private and ornamental gardens and all types of fish farming.

Petition by Erica Woollcombe calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to take all necessary steps to ensure the continued provision of local ice rinks and to recognise the benefit these play in promoting health and wellbeing.

Petition by Rob McDowall calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to review existing guidelines and risk assessment procedures to allow healthy gay and bisexual men to donate blood.

Petition by Jean Mullan calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to consider whether it is entirely satisfied and content with the procedures and timescales for notifying persons affected by planning applications and how it ensures that every local authority follows correct procedures to ensure that no individuals human rights are infringed and that each is given the opportunity to exercise their right to object to the application.

Petition by Sharon Miller, on behalf of the community of Sorn, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to consider whether it is satisfied that sufficient recognition is given by local authorities, when considering the closure of a rural school, to the adverse impact the closure would have on rural sustainability and development, where there exists higher than average pupil attainment, attendance and capacity levels and lower than average cost per pupil and to the additional capital and other costs of transferring the pupils to another school and whether the directions and guidance to local authorities fully reflect such circumstances.

Petition by Scott Reed calling on the Scottish Parliament, in light of the proposal to close Drummond Community High School in Edinburgh, to urge Scottish Ministers not to grant consent to school closure proposals where the school roll exceeds 80% of the school’s capacity.

Petition by Paul Dowsland, on behalf of Rights Advice Scotland, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure that adequate resources are made available to local authorities to ensure that no family is driven into poverty as a consequence of meeting the cost of arranging a funeral and for the Scottish Government to make representations to the UK Government on the funding levels and eligibility criteria under the social fund funeral payments scheme.

Petition by Ewan Irvine, on behalf of Full Moon Investigations, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to take necessary action to grant a posthumous pardon to all persons convicted in Scotland under all Witchcraft legislation.

Petition by Lesley Learmonth and Joan Mulroy, on behalf of ENABLE Scotland, calling for the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to consider and debate the need to amend legislation to ensure people with learning disabilities in Scotland have an enforceable right to the services of an independent advocate and that such services are adequately funded.

Petition by David Manion, on behalf of Age Concern Scotland, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to review and raise the current rate of Personal Expenses Allowance, which does not reflect the true cost of living, to allow care home residents to have independence, dignity and a good quality of life.

Petition by Louise Robertson, on behalf of the League Against Cruel Sports, Advocates for Animals, the International Otter Survival Fund and Hessilhead Wildlife Rescue, calling for the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 to introduce provisions to ban the manufacture, sale, possession and use of all snares.

Petition by Stephen Fyfe, on behalf of Diabetes UK Scotland, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure that all NHS Boards provide the necessary resources to promote and deliver diabetes self management plans to all people with diabetes.

Petition by Vanesa Fuertes, on behalf of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to make representations to the UK Government to ask the Israeli Government to lift all restrictions on Mordechai Vanunu and allow him freedom to travel.

Petition by James Bell calling on the Scottish Parliament to consider and debate the re-introduction of the Environmental Levy on Plastic Bags (Scotland) Bill.

Petition by Brian McNair calling for the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to review its family law policies and spending levels to ensure that greater emphasis and funding is attached to family mediation services and in providing more focussed family support to children.

Petition by Philip Flanders on behalf of the Road Haulage Association calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to make representations to the UK Government on the impact on the road haulage industry of recent fuel price increases; press for a freeze in fuel duty while the average price remains at or over £0.90ppl pump prices; and for a fuel duty regulator based on additional "windfall" revenue to offset fuel price rises beyond forecasts.

Petition by Josey Rowan calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to bring forward legislation to ban the killing of animals through methods such as the shechitah and the dhabiha, and require the stunning of all animals before slaughter.

Petition by Rosalind Newlands, President of the World Federation of Tourist Guides, on behalf of members of the Scottish Tourist Guides Association, calling on the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government to permanently secure for the people of Scotland the sculpture by Ronald Rae, known as the Lion of Scotland, which is temporarily exhibited in Holyrood Park until March 2008.

Petition by Alexis Stevenson calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure that a fully funded placement for free nursery education is provided from the date of a child’s third birthday.

Petition by Caroline Moore on behalf of the Campaign to Open Blackford Railway-station Again, calling for the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure that national and regional transport strategies consider and focus on public transport solutions such as the reopening of Blackford railway station which is identified as a priority action in the latest Tayside and Central Regional Transport Strategy, and in doing so, recognises and supports the positive environmental, economic and social impacts of such local solutions.

Petition by Gillian Vance, on behalf of Galloway Childcare Company, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to conduct a review of its childcare strategy to ensure adequate funding is provided for childcare services across all local authorities.

Petition by Peter McCann, on behalf of the Castle Craig Hospital, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to increase the availability and provision of residential and abstinent treatment for those who are alcohol and/or drug dependent.