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It reminds us of the ripple effect of domestic abuse and the fact that it can affect so many different people, such as friends, family and people visiting the house—the example that is given in the explanatory notes is that of children on a play date.
I lodged amendment 84 on the back of various different bits of work that I have been doing. When I visited one of the Gaelic schools in Glasgow, I was most struck by the teachers’ explanations about the time that it takes for them to translate some materials into Gaelic in order for their young people to access the materials that they need in order to do th...
It is a place that I have not been yet, and I certainly intend to visit. We touched on this earlier, but I want to explore what is missing in the policy landscape for supporting Scots, or Orcadian.
The next questions are from the deputy convener. Recently, I visited a very interesting project that Lar Housing Trust has undertaken, in which it has converted an existing tenement building and a new tenement building with a district heating system through two British companies—one of which is Scottish.
If the Government still cannot support those amendments, which have such wide support, I ask it to at least support amendment 33, which would ensure that eviction protections are kept under review compared with those in the rest of the UK.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, when comparing the education and training spending plans across the workforce and nursing lines in the draft budget for 2011-12 and 2010-11 for health and sport, the nursing line will see the larger decrease in cash terms.
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Date answered:
19 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason Scotland had an in-hospital mortality rate following coronary artery bypass grafting of 2.2% between 2006 and 2008 compared with 1.8% in England and 1.1% in Wales.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 December 2009
We are aware that survival rates for oesophageal cancer remain poor compared with some other cancers, although we are encouraged to see that mortality rates for both men and women are decreasing.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has conducted or commissioned a study comparing the cost-effectiveness of generic psychological therapy against routinely prescribed antidepressant drugs.