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In 2003-04, over 12,650 “new” patients attended services, an 8% increase from the previous year.We are also funding a new initiative to provide first-aid training for front‑line workers, drug misusers and families to reduce risks from overdoses.
We are supporting the implementation of the Plan through the Strategic Waste Fund. The plan is available in the Parliament’sReference Centre (Bib. number 26101).
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the funding specified in its draft budget 2004-05 for the Spark Project and the additional cost of teachers in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05 and (c) 2005-06 will go towards ICT.
Scottish Borders Rural Broadband,a project we supported under the UK Broadband Fund, has brought an innovative wirelessbroadband service to seven selected communities in the Borders, ahead of plannedcommercial provision.
The cost of the consultants’contract will be met through NHS boards’ general allocations. Boards have receivedrecord funding in this spending round and the cost of the new contract will besubsumed within the very significant overall real-terms uplift received by boards.An additional £30 million was allocated to NHS boards in March 2004 in order tohelp meet ...
The Edinburgh-Stanford Link project,funded by Scottish Enterprise, has so far generated 12 joint research projects betweenthe two universities and 10 collaborations with companies, since it was launchedin February 2002.
In addition, SAC’s laboratory services will be enhanced in June 2004 with the opening of a new diagnostic facility in Dumfries which has been funded primarily by the Executive. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/searc...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 April 2004
The Executive has also committed additional funds of £2 millionover three years to provide all pupils in primaries 1 and 2 with one piece of fruitthree times a week.Individual education authoritiesare responsible for implementation, and have been offered an additional £57.5 millionover three years to deliver initiatives under Hungry for Success.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what specific financial support it will be giving to the joint initiative by Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councils to set up a forum involving business and community leaders to protect around 200 miles of fragile coastline from erosion. Funding of a new forum as proposedby the two councils is a matter for the parties involv...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 March 2004
Proposals for Maximum Fees to be set by Scottish Ministers for 2004-05: Consultation paper, what information it has on the number and location of "smaller providers" of care homes, in particular care homes for elderly people, that may have to close as a consequence of the fee levy to fund the Care Commission; what information it has on the number and locati...