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The Scottish Executive Health Department does not make national recommendations on staffing levels as they would cut across local responsibilities and would undermine boards' and trusts' ability to provide a modern, flexible service matched to local needs.
That number can be increased (subject to health, safety and fire evacuation regulations) for special occasions, through planned flexibility, by the removal of seats to create additional space for up to a further seven wheelchair users.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 February 2001
Working with these agencies gives the Executive flexibility in terms of capacity and provides expertise and knowledge of recruitment markets and practices.
The Scottish Executive fully supports staff who want to combine work with domestic responsibilities and has offered job sharing, part time work and other flexible working patterns for a considerable time.
The research community in Scotland strongly supports the idea that Scottish research should be funded through a UK-wide AHRC, as is proposed in the draft section 30 order.Thirdly, the draft order deals with rail transport.
However, the Executive is proposing a massive increase in the unit's funding and a fourfold increase in staffing, and those staff have yet to be put in place.
That is precisely what is happening now in the Medical Research Council. We are funding a major study, with the UK Government, into the causes of autism.