Chamber and committees

The levels of mileageallowances and all other travel and subsistence allowances for nurses and otherhealth care staff are negotiated nationally through the General WhitleyCouncil.

Discussions with stafforganisations have resulted in an agreement in principle that any decisionsabout arrangements for travel and subsistence should be taken following theestablishment of the new NHS staff council to be created in the wake of Agendafor Change, the new pay system for NHS staff. This is subject to the outcome of the staff ballot on Agenda for Change to be held by a number of stafforganisations next year.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-1686 on 12 November 2003. 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/search_wa.

The nursing and midwifery studentbursary provides normal day to day living support, including daily travellingcosts from home to the student’s institution. When they are on placement,students can apply for expenses they incur that are above what they normallyspend when in attendance at their institution. These expenses can includeadditional travelling costs and board or lodging charges if students have tolive away from their term time address while they are on placement.

The number of fatal, seriousand slight injury accidents that have occurred on the A90 in the vicinity of the Invernorth and Gash junctions south of Fraserburgh in each of the lastseven years (up to the beginning of 2003) is as follows:

Year	Fatal	Serious	Slight	Total
1996	0	0	0	0
1997	0	1	2	3
1998	1	1	1	3
1999	0	0	0	0
2000	0	1	0	1
2001	0	0	1	1
2002	0	0	0	0
Total	1	3	4	8

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-3676 on 11 November 2003. 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/search_wa.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-3676 on 11 November 2003. 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/search_wa.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-3676 on 11 November 2003. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-3676 on 11 November 2003. 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/search_wa.

Scottish Executive ministers are responsible forthe delivery of all the targets set out in the Draft Budget 2004-05.

Full technical details of the targets set out in Building a Better Scotland: Spending Proposals2003-06: What the Money Buys and repeated in Draft Budget 2004-05 areset out in Spending Proposals 2003-2006 – Technical Notes, available onthe Scottish Executive website at the following address:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/finance/technotes2.pdf.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-3676 on 11 November 2003. 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/search_wa.