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To ask the Scottish Executive when the new proposals for the Assisted Area map will be submitted to the European Commission and when a response is expected.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 April 2000
The Health Technology Board for Scotland will assess new and existing drugs and treatments solely on the evidence of their clinical and cost-effectiveness.
For example, the SNP's dogmatic approach to the private finance initiative would result in our simply not having new nursery or primary school buildings.
The Scottish Prison Service's response was that one new prison has no completion date until the contract is awarded "in due course", and that one new prison is now under the planning appeal process, which could take some considerable time.
Although we have previously considered sentencing policy, we have not done so in respect of young people; we have not considered Christmas opening hours; and we have not considered the sportscotland consultation. Those were all new issues for us, but this petition does not raise a new issue.
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to create new direct international air links. The Scottish Executive, through its Route Development Fund, has made 21 offers on potential new routes from Scotland.