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Date answered:
27 March 2007
S2W-32474
From April 2003, the national reporting of surgical activityin out-patients has been required and ISD Scotland has been working with NHS boardsto develop full compliance nationally. At this stage only a proportion of boardshave achieved extensive coverage and further work will be necessary before a completeaccount of all out-patient surgical activity can be...
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Date answered:
13 June 2006
S2W-26764
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on developing a strategy to reduce the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) in Scotland.
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Date answered:
11 May 2006
S2W-25072
In some cases members are appointed in their own right, rather than as representativesof particular organisations.ClimateChange Review Stakeholder GroupScottishOdour Steering GroupAntisocialBehaviour Act Noise Implementation Advisory GroupFloodingIssues Advisory CommitteeScottishLiaison Group on WasteScottish Water Outputs and Capital Monitoring GroupsWorking Group on Diffuse (Water) PollutionBathing Waters Review PanelNational Stakeholder Forum for Water Environment and WaterServices ActScottish Sustainable Development...
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Date answered:
27 April 2006
S2W-25471
These ensure that the wind farm development can proceed without impairing the safe operation of thesefacilities.It is estimated that the windfarm will save some 650,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.
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Date answered:
14 December 2005
S2W-21543
Delivery of Service:To achieve 95% of the performance targets set in the schedules to the service level agreement.To achieve 86% of the milestones agreed for research and development projects.To achieve an output of 1.3 publications per scientific member of staff.To produce 22 information leaflets and 10 major articles in the industry press.Quality of Service:To begin implementation of the Joint Code of Practice for Research issued by the BBSRC, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, FSA and NERC, and endorsed by Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Development Department, within two areas of the agency’s research.To submit the scientific work of the Aquaculture and Aquatic Animal Health Programme to a peer review during 2005-06, and to put in place an agreed action plan to implement recommendations by the end of March 2006.To achieve accreditation by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service to ISO 17025 standard of the monitoring programmes for four new areas of work by March 2006.Efficiency Targets:94% of costs to be recovered from external customers (other than those agreed to be undertaken at marginal or shared costs).To restrict administrative staff costs to a maximum of 18% of the total staff costs.To achieve a research vessel utilisation of 96%, operating at a daily cost of £12,689 for Scotia and £3,665 for Clupea.To achieve cash releasing efficiency gains to the value of 1% of FRS’ budget.These targets should provide a sound basis for evaluating performance by establishing a time series for certain indicators and by requiring external scrutiny by accreditors and scientific peers.
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Date answered:
13 December 2005
S2W-21191
Emerging findings are published in ISD’s “data developments” web pages at:http://www.isdscotland.org/data_development.Also, as a result of the development of new medical technology, changes in practice due to service re-design, more effective drug treatments and enhanced use of the skills of health care staff, patien...
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Date answered:
7 November 2005
S2W-19698
As the UK positionon economic reform is consistent with that of the Executive our input was basedlargely around the Executive’s Economic Development Strategy The Frameworkfor Economic Development Scotland (FEDS) and the Executive’s EnterpriseStrategy A Smart Successful Scotland (SSS), which cover most of theintegrate...
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Date answered:
9 March 2005
S2W-14290
Sport 21 2003-2007:The National Strategy for Sport - Shaping Scotland’s Future, is the strategy for Scottish sport by Scottish sport.Its 11 targets were developed by all key partners with a role in developing anddelivering sport in Scotland and they will all play a part in helping achieve thesetargets. sportscotland ...
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Date answered:
27 April 2004
S2W-07815
Professor Kerr will report to me within a year with recommendationsfor the future development of the NHS in Scotland. I have written today to the Chair of the Health Committeewith details of the terms of reference for the exercise and copies have also beenlodged with the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
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Date answered:
17 March 2004
S2W-06693
Draft guidance to ensure that the public are informed, engaged andconsulted on all policies and services developed by the Health Department andNHSScotland has recently been distributed to NHS board chief executives andother key stakeholders for final comment.
