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Date answered:
26 March 2003
S1W-34576
Where an optometrist or ophthalmic medical practitioner tests the sight of a patient, he or she must perform, for the purpose of detecting signs of injury, disease or abnormality in the eye or elsewhere:an examination of the external surface of the eye and its immediate vicinity; an intra-ocular examination, either by means of an ophthalmoscope or by such other means as he or she considers appropriate, andsuch additional examinations as appear to the optometrist or ophthalmic medical practitioner to be clinically necessary.The following categories of patient are currently eligible for NHS sight tests: under 16s, those aged 16 to 18 in full-time education, those aged 60 and over, the registered blind or partially sighted, people prescribed complex lenses, diagnosed diabetics, diagnosed glaucoma sufferers, people aged 40 who are close blood relatives of glaucoma sufferers, those advised by an ophthalmologist that the risk of developing...
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Date answered:
20 January 2003
S1W-32951
At the end of June 2002 there were 105 families with children temporarily accommodated in bed and breakfast.As recommended by the Homelessness Task Force, existing guidance, developed in consultation with COSLA and others, requires councils to identify in their homelessness strategies how they will eliminate the use of bed and breakfast as temporary accommo...
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Date answered:
20 January 2003
S1W-32938
Inverness and the wider Highlands has the great advantage of having no artificial administrative boundaries to impede the development of a cohesive city-region. In that context the Scottish Executive has very strongly welcomed the recent establishment by local stakeholders, including Highland Council, of a City Partnership to address the particular needs of...
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Date answered:
18 December 2002
S1W-32340
To ask the Scottish Executive how sections 2 to 25 of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill can afford environmental protection to wetlands that depend on other aquatic ecosystems if the definition of the water environment given in section 3(2) of the bill excludes such wetlands, as referred to by the Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development at the Transport and the Environment Committee during the Stage 2 consideration of the bill on 20 November 2002 (Official Report, c 3753).
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6 November 2002
S1W-31248
I am pleased that it has been possible to respond sooner than expected and I have today written to the Convenor of the Parliament's Rural Development Committee providing a copy of the Executive's response.
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Date answered:
4 November 2002
S1W-30430
No penalty provisions.Common Declaration on EU Governance, May 2002The constitutional regions of Aquitaine, Emilia-Romagna, Flanders, Hessen, Marche, Skane, Tuscany, Wales and Wallonia.Political declaration containing no obligations or penalty provisions.Flanders Declaration, May 2001Bavaria, Catalonia, North Rhine-Westphalia, Salzburg, Wallonia and FlandersPolitical declaration containing no obligations or penalty provisions.Liege Resolution, November 200150 regions with legislative powerPolitical declaration containing no obligations or penalty provisions.Memorandum of Understanding with the Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales, AustraliaNew South Wales, AustraliaCommitment to undertake joint developments...
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Date answered:
2 October 2002
S1W-29546
The panel membership brings to this studyexperience on the Standing Advisory Committee for Trunk Road Assessment (economic development being a key issue in the study area);previous experience of the multi-modal study of the M4 in South Wales (a groundbreaking application of multi-modal appraisal techniques);experience in contributing to the recent Guidance ...
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Date answered:
1 August 2002
S1W-27362
In response to the research findings published earlier this year, the Scottish Welfare to Work Task Force established a construction sub-group to develop an appropriate construction industry training course for New Deal clients in Scotland.
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Date answered:
25 June 2002
S1W-26673
In addition to imposing tighter controls over emissions of pollutants to the atmosphere, the regulations also introduce tighter controls over noise, vibration and odour emissions.Stricter controls on emissions from waste incinerators are currently being developed in line with the Waste Incineration Directive.
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Date answered:
1 May 2002
S1W-24710
The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland, the Commission for Racial Equality and the Crown Office are also represented.The group has the following remit:To consider the need for legislation to combat religious hatred (in particular the creation of a new category of statutory aggravations; and the creation of a new offence of incitement to religious hatred) and if appropriate develop effective and workable proposals for legislation to increase the protection to religious groups in Scotland.To consider whether non-legislative action could be taken as an alternative.
