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The Scottish Government will only make plans to introduce any changes to the eligible age range for the bowel screening programme in Scotland if this is recommended by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 January 2025
Screening Oversight and Assurance Scotland, supported by the work of an expert advisory group and led by the Director of Screening, is currently developing a business case for implementation of targeted lung screening.
The Scottish Government does not hold national data for infectious diseases screening, antenatal haemoglobinopathies screening, or foetal anomaly ultrasound examinations within the pregnancy screening programme.
Question 2 – Regulation 3 covers the right to visits in general. Does this regulation adequately describe what ‘facilitation’ of visiting does or does not entail?
That case would have been detectable under current technology for screening blood, and it would have been detected in Scotland now, as all blood is screened.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 March 2025
The rent adjudication process is in place to protect tenants from above market rent increases and it is one of a number if protections tenants have in place.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 January 2024
This includes the strict legal processes that private landlords and their agents must follow to evict a tenant – failure to do so is a criminal offence, and tenants can assert their rights without fear of eviction.