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The Scottish Executive offers centrally funded training at the Scottish Fire Services College, Gullane, East Lothian, and also funds training for Scottish Fire Service personnel at the Fire Services College, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is proposing any changes to the eligibility for NHS-funded IVF treatment. The Scottish Programme for Clinical Effectiveness in Reproductive Health (SPCERH), commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer, held a consensus conference in 2003 to reconsider the eligibility criteria for access to NHS funded infertility treatment.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-8629 by Mr Tom McCabe on 10 June 2004, why local authority care homes are funded to cover the full cost to the authority of providing care home places while care homes in the independent sector are funded below the cost of providing such places.
I regret the effect of the actions of this practice on availability of NHS dental servicesNHS boards can apply to the Scottish ministers for approval of schemes to assist eligible patients with travel expenses to access primary care NHS dental treatment. The funding for such schemes comes from within the board’s unified budget.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many grants have been awarded under the Nitrate Vulnerable Zones grant scheme; how much funding has been awarded in such grants; what the average value of each grant awarded has been, and how many grants have been awarded in (a) Banff and Buchan (b) Gordon and (c) Moray.
Around 640ex members of pension scheme have yet to make an application for funds that maybe due to them. The Executive is currently considering how to best to distributethe final £4.28 million that remains of the original £126 million made available.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any guidance will be issued in relation to councillors and council officers participating in governing boards or managing committees of organisations receiving funds from local authorities. The Scottish Executive has no plans to issue any general guidance to councillors or council officersparticipating in governing boards or managing committees of organisations whichreceive funds from local authorities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the distribution of money from the Rural Transport Fund has been in each year since 2001-02 and what the indicative allocation figures are for 2004-05 and 2005-06.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money, in cash terms, has been available to Scottish Borders Council from the Rural Transport Fund for each year since 1999-2000 and how much will be made available for 2004-05 and any future years for which figures are available.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S2W-382 by Mr Tom McCabe on 9 June 2003, whether it is aware of any person who has sold their property in order to fund their care in a local authority care home.