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Nearly 90% of patients receive their first outpatient appointment within 26 weeks. I have arranged for the information requested for NHS boards to be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many school boards there are at present in Scotland. The latest published statistics (from May 1998) show a total of 2,268 school boards in Scotland.
I am pleased that walking distance is to be one of the criteria for new-build schools. Where I live, one of the latest schools to be built was constructed with a network of paths to nearby housing areas, which gives the children a safe walk to school.
Lewis has drawn attention to the fact that change is taking place as we speak, so although our time scale is tight, I would hope that the beginning of April would be the latest time at which we would address this matter.
There was a delay in bringing the matter to the committee. A good new year to everybody.I wanted to draw the committee's attention to the fact that although there has been a breach of the 21-day rule, the rural affairs department has apologised for that.