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The revised code of practice will be subject to full consultation and parliamentary scrutiny as required under section 27 of the 2004 act and, given the considered and thoughtful input that the campaign behind “Putting the Baby in the Bath Water” has already made, I know that the code’s revision will benefit from the...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 September 2010
In line with Eurostat/OECD definitions the SIC (2003) codes used for each industry are: High-tech manufacturing “ 24.4, 30, 32, 33, 35.5 Medium-high-tech manufacturing “ 24 (except 24.4), 29, 31, 34, 35.2, 35.4, 35.5. 2.
(c) NaSH maintains a patient index accessible only to NaSH users and there is no mandatory national minimum data set allocated, apart from that mandated for the existing Sexually Transmitted Infections Surveillance System (STISS) coding, which remains anonymous. The system allows information to be captured in the following areas “ sexual history, blood born...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the findings of the BBC Scotland investigation, The Buckfast Code, that Buckfast tonic wine was mentioned in 5,638 crime reports in Strathclyde from 2006 to 2009, equating to three a day on average, that one in 10 of those offences was violent and that the bottle was used as a weapon 114 times in...
Further to this, the list of crime codes used to record crimes is consistent across all police forces in Scotland, and allows Scotland-level statistics to be created.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 November 2008
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) issued guidance on 22 October 2008 on how lenders can meet the FSA requirements for mortgage and finance code of conduct. CML guidance is illustrated by good practice examples on policies and procedures.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients appealed against the decision to remove them from waiting lists for reasons listed in WT28 codes 37, 38, 40 and 41. Information on appeals against decisions to remove patients from waiting lists is not collected centrally.