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The changes announced to the Modern Apprenticeship programme ensures that public investments supports the Government Economic Strategy. We have committed to target new support for MA 20+ to construction, engineering and related sector, where we know our investment delivers results.
To ask the Scottish Executive in which financial years expenditure on the New Southern General Hospital will be made and whether it will provide an annual breakdown of such expenditure by (a) it and (b) NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the short-life task force on the pig industry will assess the feasibility of introducing a new on-goers scheme, with possible restructuring of the scheme’s definitions to circumvent the 10-year condition of the previous scheme, as referred to by the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment in evidence to...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 April 2008
SWSG 10/96, is available online at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library/swsg/index-f/c161.htm. We are developing new respite guidance, which we recently consulted on.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 April 2008
We will however, take the opportunity to take account of the impact on the number of people not registered with a dentist when the new dental strategy group is formed.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 April 2008
The Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA) has consulted interested parties including staff, unions, police authorities, Chief Constables and regional procurators fiscal about its proposal to build a new forensic laboratory in Dundee replacing existing facilities in Aberdeen and Dundee.
By engaging in this way, we seek to ensure that through integrated transport policies NHSScotland facilities, in particular new developments, are accessible to all by public transport, as well as by other means such as walking and cycling.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 March 2008
Work is routinely undertaken in NHS boards across Scotland to survey patients' experience of local care and to implement learning from the NHS Complaints Procedure and other local feedback arrangements. However, Better Together, our new national Patient Experience Programme will tap into patient experience in a more systematic way.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 March 2008
I look forward with optimism to the impact that Creative Scotland can have. I believe it will be a new, energetic force in our national life that should enable and support others to take risks.