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To ask the Scottish Executive how many free trips were made under the local concessionary travel scheme in each concessionary scheme area in each year of the scheme to date and how these figures compare with its estimates of the number of trips prior to delivery of the scheme.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates, and in which venues, meetings were called on community participation in the consultation process in relation to anti-social behaviour since June 2003; who the (a) platform speakers and (b) facilitators were at any such meetings; how many people attended each meeting, and what procedures were followed to ensure ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 November 2003
Two of the principalconclusions of the report of the independent expert group on mobile phones,issued in May 2000, were that the balance of evidence to date suggests that (i)exposure to radiation from mobile phone technologies at levels below currentguidelines do not cause adverse health effects to the general population, and(ii) there is no general risk to...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 October 2003
The Scottish Agricultural College’s (SAC) proposals for the delivery of education were described in its NewsRelease dated 16 September. SAC said that it proposes to retain traditional HNC/HNDprovision on a regional basis in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire, subject to market demand.Initially this will be by SAC’s own hand on existing sites, but moving to partners...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 September 2003
However, the table gives the Budget Estimates of Total Expenditure on Collection of Non-Domestic Rate Income for each authority for 2002-03. This is the most up-to-date information that we have for all the councils at present
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of extending the planned Stirling to Kincardine rail line to the port of Rosyth; what the additional technical and cost requirements would be of doing so; what advice, or guidance, has been given to the promoters of the project about any possible extension, and what information is available on these matters in the event of such an extension being constructed at a date...
The regulation and safety of medicines is reserved and is the responsibility of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).The MHRA has advised that to date a number of UK licensed vaccines have had levels of thiomersal reduced or removed completely from the manufacture of the component antigens or from the final vaccine.
No decision on the detail of the energy efficiency element of the proposed Decency Standard has yet been taken, pending consultations and discussions on the Scottish Social Housing Standard, on the Housing Improvement Task Force recommendations on a cross-tenure Scottish Housing Quality Standard and on Article 7 of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EU Directive 2002/91, dated 16/12/02 published in the OJ on 4/1/03).