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Date answered:
3 January 2002
S1W-17734
In this respect the Scottish Executive is therefore maintaining a website (www.scotland.gov.uk/transport/stgpf) with information on the matter of the ex-gratia payments and will update this when there are substantial developments to report. In addition, once the criteria for distributing ex-gratia payments have been finalised, details will be published in n...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 October 2001
S1W-18371
The Scottish Executive has recently provided funding support towards a billboard and cinema advertising initiative organised by the Scottish Transplant Co-ordinators, which took place during Transplant Awareness Week.The Scottish Executive is currently considering a range of potential measures to raise public awareness about organ donation.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 October 2001
S1W-18650
Smoking cessation was identified as a priority for investment from the £26 million Health Improvement Fund, and NHS Boards and Health Education Board Scotland (HEBS) have targeted resources in order to increase smoking cessation and prevention activities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 February 2001
S1W-13007
These all recognise that poverty affects life circumstances, lifestyles and experience of health and disease.The Executive supports research on health inequalities through project grants and by providing core funding for a programme of work at the Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at Glasgow University.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 February 2001
S1W-12958
In the last two years, Scottish Disability Sport (SDS), in partnership with sportscotland, has developed a number of steps to make information on sport and recreation opportunities available to those wishing to participate in sport.These include the new SDS website, www.scottishdisabilitysport.com, which was officially launched during 2000; the SDS newsletter The Changing Times, which is published three times a year; SDS sport specific leaflets covering the sports of athletics, archery, boccia, cycling, swimming, table tennis, football and bowls; an A5 flyer promoting the work of SDS; a comprehensive resource pack, which acts as a one stop shop for disability sport issues, with funding through the Ready Willing and Able for Sport programme; SDS has an information stand and undertakes practical sessions as part of the annual Scottish Mobility Roadshow held at the SECC, Glasgow; and SDS is promoted at a local level throughout Scotland through its local branch structure.The SDS Marketing & Communications Convenor is a voluntary post within the governing body with the responsibility of co-ordinating the above initiatives in conjunction with the Chairman and the sportscotland Co-ordinator.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 February 2001
S1W-12566
A large-scale research project into outcomes' effectiveness, funded by the Robertson Trust and supported by the Executive, is also under way.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 September 2000
S1W-08964
We have already committed £13.2 million from the NHS Capital Modernisation Fund to provide state of the art linear accelerators and treatment planning computers for the delivery of radiotherapy in Scotland's five Cancer Centres.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 April 2000
S1W-05197
Highland and Islands Enterprise is funding preliminary work for the Highland Council Local Biodiversity Action Plan and undertakes work towards biodiversity targets across the breadth of its estates and holdings.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 October 1999
S1W-01835
Additional resources of £28,000 for the training of British Sign Language Interpreters (Levels 1-3) were made available in 1998/99, with a further £8,000 in the current year. Details of the allocations of funding are as below :Organisation1998-991999-2000PurposeSENSE Scotland£14,000£8,000Provision of Training in British Sign Language (BSL) Level 1 for 10 pe...
Official Report
Meeting date:
16 December 2003
Procedures Committee, 16 Dec 2003
On a number of occasions, the lack of flexibility has been an obstacle. I appreciate that.
