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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will undertake an investigation into why the Crown Office did not provide adequate translation facilities at Wick Sheriff Court on 26 June 2006, which resulted in the Sheriff dismissing the case against a Polish defendant.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 December 2004
Statistics are available on the General Register Office for Scotland website:http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/03reference-tables/03reference-table6.html.Many of these deaths involve prescription drugs, sometimes in combination with non-prescription drugs, but the ICD10 classification does not categorise such deaths separately.Deaths Caused by the Adverse Effects of Drugs and Medicaments in Therapeutic Use Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 Number 26...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail by health board area the incidence of burkholdaria cepacia from 1991 to 1995 including details of the number of fatalities and the age groups of those affected. Between 1991-95, 26 cases of this infection were reported to the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health.
No, I am coming to a conclusion.I will be happy to meet the council again to discuss its economic strategy. It would seem best to do that when the new economic strategy is available—it has not yet been passed to me, but I know that it is to be issued shortly.
We must work with families to try to ensure that our young people have the best possible start in life. I am sure that various local authorities are considering their position on the matter as we speak, and I certainly expect more use of parenting orders during the coming weeks and months.
Of course we want to meet the needs of patients as best we can. People with cancer present in different ways, so it is difficult to track and trace them in the system.