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The bill comes under the communities portfolio, but the funding will flow through the local government settlement and you are looking at it from the justice angle.I do not see how the Executive can defend saying that tackling crime is a cross-cutting initiative.
People might have complained to the higher still development unit. I was at in-service meetings at which high-up people in the higher still development unit were present and heard difficulties.
However, I am aware of the importance of crofting to housing. New housing development in the Western Isles relies on two areas of funding—supported funding from Communities Scotland and the croft house grant scheme—formerly the CBGLS—from the Executive.
I am also interested in the finding that"Free prescriptions should not, in the public view, be provided at the expense of other aspects of NHS funding and performance."Were you given any suggestions about where that funding could come from?
We received three petitions on almost exactly the same issue previously. There seems to be a lack of funding for such care, which is developing into a genuinely national problem.
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Date answered:
16 August 2005
This suggests that currently sufficient numbers of chemistry students are applying for initial teacher education. As with all aspects of teacher workforce planning this is an issue that is kept under annual review.
This information is not heldcentrally, but figures issued by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) inJanuary 2004 for 2002-03 state that less than 2% of Scotland’snursing workforce is from countries outside the EU – around 970 nurses.
I have written to the Scottish Executive Development Department to raise the point that some councils have been unable to take advantage of the scheme because their housing stock already has central heating and to ask whether a trade-off could be made to channel funds into the private sector.