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The Borders railway will be crucial to the Borders economy and will also benefit Edinburgh and Midlothian with access to a new job market and new residential opportunities.
The second reason is that there are intractable problems with the take-up of means-tested benefits. In my paper, I have used the latest statistics available from the Office for National Statistics.
We do not, however, know whether the increase will continue. In the latest quarter, the number of sequestrations in Scotland showed an increase of 66 per cent on the comparable period in the previous year.
I understand that, because the proposals relate to family law, a new EU regulation could be adopted only following unanimous agreement of all member states that participate in the process.
The decision-making issues to which Ken Macintosh referred tend to involve commonsense matters such as resource management, visits and research.My plea is that, if we approve the paper, we should update annexe A to reflect standing orders.
This information is notavailable in the detail requested.The average salary of adoctor in 2002 (the latest year for which figures are available) is £43,401 anda nurse £20,020.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 January 2002
The Executive plans to publish the next annual progress report on the Scottish National Grid for Learning in 2002 once key data from the latest School Census have been analysed.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 December 2001
Information from ISD Scotland for 30 September 2000, which is the latest available, indicates that there were no consultant vacancies and no staff grade vacancies in the specialty of audiological medicine in NHSScotland.