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The table at paragraph 108 shows an estimate of the number of students who would be eligible for each level of bursary payment under the new student support system. This was drawn from analysis conducted in 2011-12, which used Student Awards Agency Scotland data drawn from the application process showing students by status (e.g. young or independent); thei...
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Date answered:
19 February 2015
Any decision whether to update a guideline is based on the volume of new evidence to update that recommendation and Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN) Council will prioritise topics for update in line with capacity within the SIGN programme.
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Date answered:
6 February 2015
All of the consequentials have been announced and will be used as follows: Total (£ million) Additional National Resource Allocation Committee funding 33.1 New drug pressures – support for boards 32.0 Delayed discharge 30.0 Specialist nurses 2.5 Performance capacity and quality 31.5 Sub total 129.1 Scottish Government Health and Social Care ...
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Date answered:
8 January 2015
As I explained previously, equality impact assessment is applied to new or revised plans, policies and strategies, but is not normally applied to individual operational decisions, such as which monuments and structures to designate.
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Date answered:
7 January 2015
In the years of its operation, this valuable support has helped enable the construction of over 900 new croft houses and the improvement of a further 200 existing croft houses.
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Date answered:
18 November 2014
The Scottish Government will take a cautious, responsible, evidence-based approach to the development of new energy technologies, such as underground coal gasification.
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Date answered:
30 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what stage it has reached in the transposition of the directive (a) 2014/23/EU, (b) 2014/24/EU and (c) 2014/25/EU. The new EU procurement directives must be transposed into Scots law by 18 April 2016.
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Date answered:
24 September 2014
The National Infertility Group recommended that the criteria used to consider further access criteria changes to NHS funded IVF treatment, including the child in the home criteria, should include the following: a) impact of access criteria changes made in July 2013 b) emerging clinical evidence in light of new treatment pathways c) capacity d) available...