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There is a clear intention to ensure rigorous follow-up on findings and recommendations through scrutiny and challenge of NHS board action plans and on the basis of further announced and unannounced visits to provide necessary levels of assurance and accountability.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 March 2009
The NHS Care Environment Inspectorate will provide robust, external inspection of NHS facilities, including unannounced visits. This is intended to enhance safety, assurance and public confidence.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 February 2009
I have not met formally with either organisation in the past year, although I regularly engage with representatives of individual parent councils and parent teacher associations during the course of visits to schools. The Minister for Children and Early Years attended the Scottish Parent Teacher Council''s 60th anniversary Conference in November 2008.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 November 2008
The First Minister has attended one official engagement in Fife during September and October 2008. He visited Rosyth on 18 September to make an announcement about the Rosyth to Zeebrugge ferry service.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a peripatetic teacher visiting a nursery school on a regular basis is sufficient to fulfil the Scottish Government’s commitment to provide access to a fully qualified teacher for every nursery child.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 September 2007
There is a real opportunity for Scotland’s appeal as atourism destination to be used to attract visitors to the UK attending the 2012London Olympic Games to extend their stay by visiting Scotland. S3W-04127
This disapplication does, however, limit the effectiveness of Scottish Parliament legislation which engages either a market access principle or the automatic recognition principle in relation to professional qualifications in spite of the fact that the principles do not introduce any new statutory limitations on the legislative competence of the Scottish Pa...