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The Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 providesthe statutory basis for UK bank holidays. Schedule 1 prescribes Scottish bank holidays.Section 1(2) of the act provides for alternative days to be appointed as bank holidaysby Royal Proclamation where a day specified in schedule 1 to the act is inexpedientin any particular year.
The number of nurses whosemain specialism is breast cancer is shown in the table below.Breast Cancer Nurses by NHSBoardHeadcount as at 30 September 2003 Scotland 26 Argyll and Clyde 1 Ayrshire and Arran 4 Borders 0 Dumfries and Galloway 1 Fife 0 Forth Valley 2 Grampian 3 Greater Glasgow 7 Highland 0 Lanarkshire 3 Lothian 4 Orkney 0 Shetland 0 Tayside 1 Western Isles 1 The figures are a headcountof nurses whose main clinical area of work is in breast cancer.Headcount denotes number ofpersons in post.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 August 2003
Unrestricted Principal Equivalents (UPEs)1, 2 Aged Under 30 and Aged Over 60Scotland All UPEsAged Under 30Aged Over 6019993,697 57 8920003,707 63 8220013,756 64 8020023,767 60 842003P3,797 58 84Notes:1.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it holds on the number of hearings adjourned since 1 January 2002 of applications for criminal injuries compensation in respect of victims of criminal injuries resident in Scotland under (a) the non-statutory Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, which came into operation on 1 February 1990 and (b) the 1996 Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 April 2000
Nursery education in both the public and independent sector is delivered by a mix of staff which includes teachers, nursery nurses and other staff. The ratio of staff to pupils is 1:9 in local authorities and 1:5 in others.
The week after next, I will have a meeting with the Scottish Executive to discuss how we might do that, and hospitality will be one of the pilot areas in which we will explore that possibility.There is a case for core skills' being delivered outwith a modern apprenticeship framework, in addition to their being level 1 or level 2 Scottish vocational qualific...
The £375 million figure was set at the start of the committee's deliberations on tramline 1 and was accepted. Now, we are talking about only partial implementation of tramline 1.