This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The scheme has been very successful this year, with around5,000 applications received to date. To put this figure in context, the totalnumber of businesses with a broadband connection in May 2003 was 10,000.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been collected under the Proceeds of Crime (Scotland) Act 1995 relating to drug offences in 2002-03 and 2003-04 to date. During the financial year2002-03 the sum of £472,449.54 was recovered following Confiscation Ordersunder the Proceeds of Crime (Scotland) Act 1995 in respect of drug offences.The sum of £8...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 January 2004
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to reply. Her response is as follows:To date, eight localauthorities have submitted a local housing strategy.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 August 2003
In the course of the work undertaken to date by the Executive on the aggregated procurement of broadband services for the public sector, every effort has been made to ensure full compliance with the relevant European legislation.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-33679 by Margaret Curran on 18 February 2003, what the latest date is by which the discussions concerning compensation to homeowners in the Ainslie Road and Macclehose Road area of the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency will be completed The timetable for discussions concerning any comp...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 February 2003
The information requested is not held centrally.However, the Glennie Group and the department have worked closely with NHSScotland to achieve technical compliance and only a small number of instances of cancelled operations have been reported to date. S1W-33666
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the achievements of the Highland and Islands Sheep Strategy have been to date in relation to the (a) number of lambs recorded under the strategy and (b) overall genetic improvement in respect of ewes and rams.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 December 2002
The view of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee, which provides independent expert scientific advice to ministers on matters concerning spongiform encephalopathies, is that the most likely explanation of the vCJD cases that have occurred to date is exposure to the BSE agent. S1W-32482