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We hope that the energy performance certificates will become part of the house buying process. The new regulations will require architects and builders to take account of the impact of new buildings on the stability of existing properties.
You have said that you have a deadline, so please share it with us. What is the latest date by which the designation order must be introduced to comply with the timetable that you have said exists?
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.
Education authorities must publish that information within three months of the commencement of section 26 of the act. It must be available free of charge either at the authority's headquarters or at public libraries.
The extension of the qualifying period to five years, the new 10-year opt-in for housing associations that were previously excluded from the right to buy and the new proposals for pressured areas make the modified right to buy infinitely preferable to the right to buy that will exist until enactment of the bill.The Executive's concessions have been widely welcomed.
We will return to the subject on Monday 26 November, when our second evidence-taking session will take place.I thank the press and public for their interest in this morning's proceedings.
Housing To ask the Scottish Executive whether its housing policy will preserve the right to rent with equal importance as the right to buy. (S1O-1559) Our top priority is attracting new investment into rented homes.