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These include are a DWP liaison group in Scotland, a dedicatedliaison point between the Executive and DWP (which allows for day-to-day dialogueas and when required), and Executive attendance at the DWP Annual Forums.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its Health Department has provided guidelines to the mobile telecommunications industry regarding the provision of information at point of sale on the specific absorption rate (SAR) values of mobile phones.
Whenthe Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act came into force on 1 January 2005, this administrativearrangement ceased. At this point, there were approximately 30,000 files under a30 year closure, and approximately 11,000 under longer closures.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the use of “water boarding”, a procedure whereby a suspect’s head is reportedly held under water until they are on the point of drowning, would constitute an act of torture under Scots law.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is acceptable that I received a reply from the Director of Corporate Affairs of the office of the Water Industry Commissioner for Scotland regarding complaints made by a constituent which failed to answer these complaints, despite assurances in a letter of 13 April 2005 from the then Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development that "I have asked the Commissioner himself to write to the constituent, copied to you, at his earliest convenience explaining the situation and answering the points...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the forthcoming devolution of railway powers to Scotland, it will urge Network Rail to supply maintenance and renewal budgets for Scotland and to appoint a director for Scotland as a single point of contact for the Executive, with the three main management streams affecting infrastructure and operations a...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2004
report on hospital closure and service re-provision, published in January 2004, describes some examples of community based assessment and treatment services and sets out a number of action points to assist NHS boards to achieve this goal.
It is also the essential starting point for local authorities and the Scottish Executive to engage with the sector to encourage good standards, drive out unacceptable landlords and ensure that the sector’s important role in providing for housing need is enhanced.