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We are committed to reducingadmissions of children and young people to adult beds by 50% by 2009 and toincreasing the number of in-patient psychiatric beds for young people indedicated units to 47 by 2008 and to 56 by 2010. Visits this year to all NHSBoards have focussed on implementation by the published timetable and on widerattention to the services and ...
Dementia is a nationalpriority and we place great importance on support services for dementiasufferers.Following publication of theMental Welfare Commission Report Older and Wiser - Findings from ourunannounced visits to NHS continuing care ward (Bib. number 42946).I have askedthe NHS boards to provide action plans that set out how they will ensure thatall ...
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Date answered:
15 February 2005
Scottish Executive grants to the Scottish Library and Information Council are shown in the following table: 2003-04 2004-05 £ £ Core Grant 125,000 175,000 People’s Network Project Officer 35,000 35,000 Development of LA Performance Indicators - 20,0...
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Date answered:
14 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will give a decision on the notified planning application P/PP/75/96/LA/55 referred to it on 16 July 2001 in respect of the sports ground in North Meggetland, Edinburgh.
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Date answered:
9 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what average petrol prices (a) have been in each of the last five years and (b) are forecast to be in each of the next five years and what comparable information it has for (i) each of the other component parts of the United Kingdom, (ii) each EU member state and (iii) each OECD country that is not an EU member state.
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Date answered:
17 December 2010
. £70 million is the equivalent of a 3.1 per cent increase in each local authority''s 2010-11 estimated council tax income. This compares very favourably with the latest HM Treasury inflation figures of 1.9 per cent.
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Date answered:
23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what reports it has received in the last 12 months from any part of the NHS that have evaluated success in redeployment measured as (a) turnover post-redeployment compared with pre-redeployment and (b) number of staff successfully redeployed.
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Date answered:
25 August 2010
The most recent Scottish labour market statistics show that for the period March-May 2010 the ILO unemployment rate in Scotland was 8.1%, compared to a rate of 7.8% for the UK, as a whole.
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Date answered:
24 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, given the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership’s research, which shows that climate change is causing the distribution of some fish species to move north and which may make the collection of thorough comparative fish stock data more difficult, whether the Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory will increase its us...