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To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of hospital-acquired infection were reported at Inverclyde Hospital in each of the last five years and how this compares to other hospitals (a) in that NHS board area and (b) across Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what the expected percentage decrease is, if any, in the number of inmates held at Cornton Vale Prison in 2000 as compared with 1999. The information requested is not available.
As we are discussing management and administration, which Murdo Fraser raised earlier, I want finally to compare the budgets of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise—which, it is fair to say, is largely comparing like with like.
Do you have any data that will enable us to understand how the UK Government compares, both with other pan-UK organisations and with other Governments, in terms of the geographic spread of its staff and the concentration of jobs around the capital?
In considering something like this, it is always difficult to come to the right solution if one does not know whether the proposals will have a positive, negative or indeed neutral effect on revenue.Given that student numbers are disproportionate in Edinburgh and Glasgow compared to more rural authorities, do you envisage a shortfall in revenue for some loc...