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Another government amendment has clarified that a DHP can take the form of a payment to an individual, payment direct to a landlord or a reduction in rent liability, if the applicant is a local authority tenant (s.49(4)).
We are unaware of when the UK National Screening Committee will form a view on lung cancer screening but we understand that they will review the evidence on lung cancer screening again after the results of the NELSON randomised lung cancer screening trial are published.
The Scottish Government has not had any direct involvement in the review of England's cancer screening. The Scottish Government is advised on all aspects of screening by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) and the Scottish Screening Committee.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the modelling regarding the impact of suspending the Cancer Screening Programme. On 30 March 2020, the Scottish Government announced a temporary pause to a number of national screening programmes, including the screening pro...
That is unfair not just to the tenant who has made a success of the tenancy, but to the neighbours who share a landing or a close with that tenant, because another vulnerable tenant who might not sustain the tenancy might be moved in.
This meeting, which included Professor Anna Stec of the University of Central Lancashire, was specifically to discuss issues around the FBU DECON campaign including firefighter health screening, the SFRS estate and budgets.
To ask the Scottish Government by what date self-referral services for breast screening will be resumed for over 70s, who have previously experienced breast cancer but are outwith the surveillance scan group.