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Details of specific investment in cancer services in Health Board areas are not held centrally.The Scottish Executive has invested £13.2 million modernisation funding to provide new and replacement linear accelerator equipment for radiotherapy.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 August 2000
Information on the number of people entering methadone programmes is not centrally available, as such details are only collated at local health board level, if their GPs have signed up to local shared care schemes.The Scottish Drug Misuse Database provides a profile of new problem drug users seen at a broad range of services who have been prescribed methado...
The Executive has also issued formal offers of grant to allow two new Local Volunteer Development Agencies, in Moray and East Renfrewshire, to start in 2000-01.The Executive has awarded £221,000 to 13 new Millennium Volunteers projects for 2000-01.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 February 2000
As part of the new arrangements introduced by the Public Finance and Accountability Act, the aggregate figure for local authority capital allocations is specified in the Budget Bill which is subject to the approval of the Scottish Parliament.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 January 2000
I have announced today the establishment of a Supervisory Board which will consider how the Executive should respond to the challenges of new markets, techniques and technology in its dealings with suppliers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 October 1999
While there will be some provision for central funding of the start up costs of the Commission, the aim is for the cost of regulation to be largely paid for by regulated care providers.Some staff currently employed by local authorities and health boards are likely to transfer to this new body. Any such transfer will take account of the principles of the Tr...
However, the member is mistaken if he is seriously trying to tell me that The Herald and The Scotsman are not thought to reflect the national news in Scotland. Those publications have moved away from interpreting only the news in the west of Scotland or the east of Scotland.