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Indeed, if he is looking for answers from Henry McLeish—the Scottish National Party's new best friend—I suggest that he is perhaps asking the wrong questions.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will undertake an investigation into why the Crown Office did not provide adequate translation facilities at Wick Sheriff Court on 26 June 2006, which resulted in the Sheriff dismissing the case against a Polish defendant.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 December 2004
Statistics are available on the General Register Office for Scotland website:http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/03reference-tables/03reference-table6.html.Many of these deaths involve prescription drugs, sometimes in combination with non-prescription drugs, but the ICD10 classification does not categorise such deaths separately.Deaths Caused by the Adverse Effects of Drugs and Medicaments in Therapeutic Use Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 Number 26...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail by health board area the incidence of burkholdaria cepacia from 1991 to 1995 including details of the number of fatalities and the age groups of those affected. Between 1991-95, 26 cases of this infection were reported to the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health.
To ensure that the new tenancy arrangements do not create financial difficulties for housing associations, these houses will be exempt from the right to buy for a period of 10 years unless housing associations themselves decide to allow relevant tenants to have the new "modernised" right to buy (details of which were set out in my recent answer to Karen Whitefield).We have also concluded that in some areas, to be designated by local authorities with the approval of Scottish Ministers as "pressured" because of the difficulties in meeting the demand for new socially rented houses, the right to buy could be suspended for all new and re-let housing association and council housing for a specific period.Further details of our proposals will be set out in the forthcoming Consultation Paper on the Housing Bill which I plan to issue shortly.
Those data are then related to what one might call demographic numbers on the number of new households that form each year and the proportion of them that are able or unable to buy.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 October 2005