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and the Nuffield report The four health systems of the UK: How do they compare?. Waiting times throughout Scotland emerge in a positive light within these reports.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS beds were planned to be opened each week in winter 2014-15, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) hospital, and how this compares with the number that were opened.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 February 2015
The Scottish Funding Council’s Baseline Report for Academic Year 2013-14 explains that while there are different ways of measuring student numbers, full-time equivalent student numbers (FTEs) are the most accurate way of comparing the volume of college activity over time.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 November 2014
The aim is to foster a culture of continuous quality improvement at a local level supported by a programme of regional and national comparative reporting and review. This will allow for identification of common themes and best practice for improvement in patient experience.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 August 2014
Scotland’s seas are the fourth largest sea area in EU core waters and longest coastline of anywhere in Europe containing some of the richest seas with around four tonnes of fish taken from each square nautical mile of Scottish waters compared to around one tonne on average for EU waters.
The report shows that in 2013 renewable heat capacity increased by 18% and heat generated from renewable sources by 17% compared with 2012, indicating that Scotland is making good progress towards meeting the renewable heat target by 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government how long it has taken each local authority in the Forth Valley region to process a building warrant completion certificate application in each of the last five years; how many applications each has processed during that period; how many have taken (a) up to and (b) more than two months to process, and how these figures compare with the Scottish average. The Scottish Government does not hold this information.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how long on average each local authority in the Highlands and Islands region has taken to process a building warrant application in each of the last five years; how many applications each has processed; how many have taken over (a) one and (b) two months to process, and how these figures compare with the Scottish average. The...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 January 2014
As a result, Scottish students accepted by our universities rose to a record number this year, with 27,990 students accepted to study so far in 2013-14, an increase of 2% compared with this stage last year (UCAS, 24 September 2013).