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Defined as: 1981-1989: OPCS-3 291-292, 294-295, 296.9; 1989 to present: OPCS-4 G01-G05, G11, G13-G15, G17-G18, also G42-G44, G46 with operation site code Z27.1 to indicate oesophagus. 3.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 August 2009
Cases have been selected using the International Classification of Diseases 10th revision. (ICD10) codes: Y60.0 - Unintentional cut, puncture, perforation or haemorrhage during surgical operation.
At the beginning of the pandemic, before we had a chance to manufacture personal protective equipment here in Scotland, Prestwick airport was instrumental in taking receipt of PPE. Who does not remember footage of the first flight arriving from China carrying supplies, including intensive care unit equipment and testing kits.
Eighty five per cent of the fiscal gap that is disclosed in the GERS figures is represented not by lower tax receipts in Scotland, but by higher spending.
The Government’s own statistics, released last week, reveal that Scotland’s national deficit—the difference between our income tax receipts and our expenditure—stands at more than 7 per cent of our gross domestic product.
It used to say that it was possible to use tax as a lever to grow the economy and generate additional tax receipts. Alex Salmond and John Swinney used to argue for lower corporation tax.
Even if we raised their number to the UK average, that would yield an additional £600 million in tax receipts, all of which would come to the Scottish Government.
You have raised some important issues, but I am concerned about how we ensure that boards do not use capital receipts or one-off receipts to support revenue expenditure and, like Argyll and Clyde NHS Board, run into significant problems because rising general expenditure is backed by efficiency savings using capital receipts.