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The distribution of National Lottery funds is a matter for the Lottery Distribution Bodies: Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Screen, sportscotland, the Big Lottery Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2005
The distribution of National Lottery funds is a matter for the Lottery Distribution Bodies: Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Screen, sportscotland, Big Lottery Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 November 2004
Central funds are used for national systems such as the national screening and child health systems and generally in support of the national eHealth Strategy.
The distribution of national lottery funds is a matter for the Lottery Distribution Bodies: Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Screen, sportscotland, New Opportunities Fund, Community Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund and Millennium Commission.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any shortage of capacity at the Scottish Cervical Cytology Training School in Edinburgh and, if so, what impact any such shortage will have on the roll-out of the liquid-based cytology screening programme. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is in place between the National Services Division of the Common Services...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether general practioners must provide the prostate-specific antigen test on request. The National Screening Committee (NSC) recently considered the current policy for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and concluded it did not give clear guidance on how to deal with men asking for a PSA test where there are no symptom...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 November 2000
The comments in Professor McKenna's letter have been drawn to the attention of the Chairman of the Child Health Sub-Group of the National Screening Committee. The Sub-Group is keeping this issue under regular review, as it does with any other topic where the evidence base is still evolving.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 November 1999
Testing is done on blood and kidney, liver, heart and spleen tissue. Procedures include screening for Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) viral proteins using the Indirect Fluorescence Antibody Technique (IFAT); detection of a specific fragment of the ISA genome using Reverse Transcriptase Poylmerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) and; virus isolation in tissue cultur...
Committee reports
Date published:
11 February 2026
Comhairle Nan Eilan Sair and VisitArran felt the Bill did not take the opportunity to include island sensitive exemptions.iLocal Government, Housing and Planning Committee, Official Report, 27 January 2025, Col 32 The Law Society of Scotland called for specific reasons for travel such as hospital stays or a requirement to attend court to be exempt.iiWritten submission from: The Law Society of Scotland The STA proposed an exemption for local residents which was supported by other submissions.iiiWritten submission from: the Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA) and The Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers - initial joint response Hostelling Scotland and others called for exemptions from charging the levy for charitable organisationsiiWritten submission from: Hostelling Scotland VisitScotland noted the exemptions included in initial schemes, which included hospital visits...