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Date answered:
28 August 2007
S3W-03081
Our prime objectiveis to increase the rate of Scottish economic growth and to ensure that this is sustainable.As a component part of this we want to improve the efficiency and effectivenessof the delivery of economic development activity and we are looking at how the enterprisenetworks, including Highlands and Islands Enterprise, can contribute tothat.
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Date answered:
27 August 2007
S3W-02773
The rolling stockprocurement plan continues to be developed by Transport Scotland alongside the wider procurement plan to address the requirementsof both the major projects, including Airdrie to Bathgate, and the increasing demandsfor rail services.
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Date answered:
24 August 2007
S3W-03053
We welcomethe contribution which Citizens Advice has made to the development and implementationof the Scottish National Standards for Information and advice providers, which coverwelfare rights, money and housing advice, for example, by their involvement in piloting.
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Date answered:
14 August 2007
S3W-02378
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to meet private sector ferry operators to discuss how they could make a greater contribution to innovation and improved cost-effectiveness in respect of Scottish shipping services, as outlined in the recent Sustainable Transport Research and Development Network in the North Sea Region (SUTRANET) report, Sta...
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Date answered:
14 August 2007
S3W-02473
Responsibility forthe Dunoon Pier development rests with Argyll and Bute Council.
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Date answered:
2 August 2007
S3W-01940
Scottish IntercollegiateGuidelines Network Guideline 71 on the Management of Osteoporosis recommendsthe use of Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) scans for the diagnosis ofosteoporosis, and states that DEXA should be available in all NHS Board areas.This will be taken into account in the framework for access to communitydiagnostics which is being developed as part of the policy of shifting thebalance of care to the community.We have drawn boardsattention to the findings of an NHS Quality Improvement Scotland audit (2005)showing the benefits in preventing future osteoporotic fractures of directaccess to DEXA scanning by patients who have sustained a fracture.
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Date answered:
27 July 2007
S3W-02115
Diagnostic information forpatients attending outpatient clinics is not available centrally.On-going research inmolecular genetics and development of the brain should help to establish thenature of the association between fragile X and autism.
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Date answered:
19 July 2007
S3W-01616
To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to meet the major energy suppliers and what matters will be discussed I recently brought together manyof Scotland’s major energy companies and suppliers to discuss the challenges andopportunities for Scotland’s energy sector, and to seek their views on Scottishenergy policy.Over the summer recess, I hopeto meet again with a variety of energy suppliers, to familiarise myself with theiroperations and to discuss topical issues relevant to the Scottish people.The First Minister has also metwith the Chief Executive’s of Scottish and Southern Energy and Scottish Power (Iberdrola).Amongst other things, they discussed options for the further development...
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Date answered:
27 June 2007
S3W-01139
It recognisesthat some staff are required to work by themselves for significant periods of timewithout close or direct supervision in the community or in isolated work areas.The ambulance service has developed a Lone Worker Policy and a Violence Risk Assessmentdesigned to enable the service to meet its obligation to protect such staff “sofar as is reasonabl...
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Date answered:
25 June 2007
S3W-01069
However, the annualnumber of DNA samples that are taken by the police from arrested or detained persons,and then developed and retained at the Scottish DNA database, is as follows: Year Number of Samples 1999 26,487 2000 21,728 2001 18,681 2002 38,930 2003 39,047 2004 ...
