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To ask the Scottish Executive whether the assessment of the advice given by the Principals of Scottish universities on the transfer of the functions of the Studentship Advisory Committee of the Student Awards Agency for Scotland to a UK-wide body included an assessment of any consultation carried out by individual Principals and their research staff.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 August 2001
The recently published Forward Strategy for Scottish Agriculture suggested that, in considering the options for the future, the Scottish raspberry industry may find some transferable ideas in some recent developments in the strawberry industry.
The number of cases of infection with hepatitis C where the suspected risk factor of blood transfusion or tissue transfer reported to the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH) and shown in the figures published at the beginning of May is 206.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 December 2000
However, experience to date suggests that other developments such as "store and forward" of digital images and electronic transfer of data provide greater benefit to primary care than videoconferencing.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will now take urgent action to ensure that the 2000 patients who are clinically fit for discharge, but are occupying NHS beds, are transferred to a more appropriate care setting.
An energy audit could be carried out when ownership of a property is transferred, because that is the point at which capital becomes available in the market.
There is no way in the world that, from 26 June and the subsequent dates that Mike Russell mentioned, anything could have been done to avert the crisis.