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The estimated cost of what I propose for those 568 people is just under £15 million. Further payments may arise in future if other people who have contracted hepatitis C from blood products emerge.
That programme will be doubled in Glasgow next year and extended to Fife. To help to shape future policy, further research is being carried out on the specific issues around young women who offend.
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to improve leadership and management in the civil service in line with the key areas for action identified in Taking Stock Review: Fit for the Future, published in December 2006. The Permanent Secretary has establisheda new Strategic Board whose responsibilities include oversight of actions to respondto...
Funding from 2008-09 onwards is indicative and depends on the outcomeof future Spending Reviews. 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 Award (£) 0 59,000 0 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 Award (£) 285,000 2,916,670 1,559,965 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Award (£)...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 January 2007
From the start of 2006 two reference groups– practitioners and patients/carers – and a steering group examined the best wayforward for the future of nursing in the community. The work of these groups wascomplemented and informed by a wide range of workshops which took place across thecountry in the first half of 2006.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 January 2007
Over the four years, averagehousehold bills were in total £211 lower than they would otherwise have been. Lookingto the future, these efficiency gains mean that customers will pay the lowest overallreasonable cost for the services they receive.Further details of the efficiencysavings can be sought from the Water Industry Commission and its Cost and performa...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 November 2006
It also proposes that an area of open space should only be developedfor other uses where the local authority’s open space strategy and development planidentify the area of open space as being surplus to current and future communityrequirements.In addition, thedraft SPP proposes national minimum standards for inclusion of open space in certaintypes of new de...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 October 2006
Regard must be had to the whole circumstances of the case as known to theProcurator Fiscal.More generally, an Equality AdvisoryGroup providesindependent expert advice to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service onthe impact orlikely impact of its existing and future policies on equality issues, includingracial, religiousand cultural issues.