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To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many people have been employed in the construction of the new parliament building, broken down by profession and trade.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 April 2004
Her response is as follows:Ministers have given a commitment to provide 18,000 new and improved homes for social rent and low cost home ownership in the three years up to 2006.
Does the committee have a view on recommendation 7? We should support it. If we want to, we could note that we support recommendation 7 on the understanding that it does not prescribe a means by which we must reflect mainstreaming of equality in our annual report.
How much of the increased figure is new money and how much is intended to meet new burdens or initiatives that the Executive may put on you in terms of policy initiatives?
He suggested that a benefit of the proposed new policy is that it would weed out some applications and ensure that new applications from the industry are substantive.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what its latest calculations are of the annual cost to businesses of congestion on the Kingston Bridge and in the Clyde Tunnel.
Although there is no specific target associated with school nurses, the latest figures show that, at September 2004, there were 423 headcount qualified school nurses working in NHS Scotland.
We have received another letter from the Executive on having recourse to section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998, which enables Westminster to legislate on devolved areas. I invite views on the latest correspondence from the Executive, which refers to "Revision or Abolition of the Fertilisers Regulations 1991".