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To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities currently run direct payment schemes. Latest figures published by Direct Payments Scotland show that 17 local authorities are currently making direct payments.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 October 2001
Expenditure on research and development by businesses in Scotland amounted to £393 million in 1999, the latest year for which figures have been published by the Office for National Statistics.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total expenditure was by the Scottish Arts Council on grants to projects by local authority area in the latest year for which figures are available.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many schools in Scotland do not have school boards. The latest published statistics (from May 1998) show 476 schools which were eligible to have a school board did not. 95 schools in Scotland were not eligible to have a school board.
In the course of the review we have been taking steps to ensure that we are making the best use of the resources currently devoted to tackling drug misuse, but also identifying the scope for new initiatives on drugs.
I am not sure that declaring future interests is the best way to do it, but if the House of Commons, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the National Assembly for Wales have such a rule, so should we, despite our misgivings.