This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
It would not be helpful in combating identity fraud to be too specific about the Scottish Administration's co-operation in this field with UK Government agencies and with those responsible for law-enforcement north and south of the Border, nor about the new counter-measures being put in place.However, the General Register Office for Scotland this spring mad...
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Date answered:
14 April 2000
Currently work is underway to identify bottlenecks in cancer services.The health board and its Trusts are also embarked on a major programme of refurbishment for the Beatson Oncology Centre. This includes the provision of new radiotherapy equipment. S1W-03720
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 March 2000
To ask the Presiding Officer, with respect to the design of the new Scottish Parliament building, whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will set up an advisory panel to liaise with the design team on environmental and sustainability matters and whether it will provide (a) a note of target performance indicators for technical matters which have ...
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Date answered:
17 February 2000
Only about one in every 1,000 courses of treatment will attract the new maximum charge.NHS charges in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will rise by the same amount.Any increase in NHS charges over the duration of the current UK Parliament will be based on the All Items Retail Price Index for the November preceding the increase.The value of optical vouche...
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Date answered:
13 December 1999
We are therefore planning to publish a wide-ranging consultation paper early in the New Year. The consultation paper will both provide detailed information about how the current system works, and invite views on the current system and on possible options for change.The consultation paper will in particular seek views on the following:should the Parliament b...
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Date answered:
10 November 1999
It is not possible to predict how much money will be recovered or how many individuals will be subject to proceedings until the new regulations have been in force for a reasonable period.
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Date answered:
5 October 1999
It will establish a forum for clinicians from which new joint working initiatives can be developed.None of these matters can be tackled effectively without input from all those who have to face the difficulties associated with delivering health care and treatment in the more remote parts of Scotland.
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Date answered:
9 August 2006
All figures in this tableexclude penal establishment inmates and information received from needle exchanges.2. New individual: any personwho is attending (a) for the first time ever or (b) if has been at least six monthssince the last attendance at the service.3.
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Date answered:
28 April 2006
A population-basedstudy of measles, mumps and rubella vaccination and autism. New England Journal of Medicine 347: 1477-82. http://content.nejm.orgda Cunha SS, Rodrigues LC, BarretoML, Dourado I.