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Date answered:
1 December 2010
S3W-37887
We are currently working with our local government partners to extend the council tax freeze for another year bringing some further much needed relief to hard-pressed households across Scotland. £70 million is the equivalent of a 3.1 per cent increase in each local authority''s 2010-11 estimated council tax income.
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Date answered:
25 November 2010
S3W-37564
The second is the M80 Stepps to Haggs contract which was awarded on 16 January 2009 to Highway Management (Scotland) Limited, a consortium of Bilfinger Berger, Grahams and Northstone at a cost of £322 million (net present value).
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Date answered:
22 November 2010
S3W-37410
Work has also recently started on the development of an intermediate care framework which aims to provide guidance on the local development of intermediate care, and ensure consistency of service delivery across Scotland. The care home sector will play an important part in the development of this policy.
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16 November 2010
S3W-37248
We have also supported the establishment of the Familial Arrhythmia Network Scotland (FANS). The network aims to raise awareness of familial arrhythmias, define and agree referral protocols, develop national guidance for clinical and genetic testing and establish a national register which will support long term follow-up.
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Date answered:
11 November 2010
S3W-37194
The Scottish Government will give due consideration to the Department of Health cancer drugs fund consultation findings once they are published. Scotland has robust, equitable and transparent arrangements for the introduction of newly licensed clinically and cost-effective medicines to treat all conditions, including rare diseases.
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9 November 2010
S3W-37147
The Scottish Government''s current policy in relation to NHS provision of complementary or alternative medicines, including acupuncture, is that these may offer relief to some people suffering from a wide variety of conditions, and it is open to NHS boards in Scotland to make such services available based on an assessment of needs within their respective ar...
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Date answered:
8 November 2010
S3W-36932
Information from the Public Contracts Scotland portal shows that, across the wider Scottish public sector, accelerated procedures have been applied in 49 awards of contract in 2009 and 27 awards so far in 2010.
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Date answered:
5 November 2010
S3W-36985
In January 2008 the Scottish Government provided additional funding to enable the college to temporarily increase its capacity to 197 students per course, as part of the Scottish Government''s commitment to deliver an additional 1,000 police officers in Scotland''s communities. In April 2010 the current 13 week course was introduced, raising the permanent ...
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Date answered:
3 November 2010
S3W-36813
To use competition in public procurement as a means of increasing productivity and innovation, as suggested in Recommendation 3, our enterprise agencies actively encourage companies to register with the Scottish Government''s portal, Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). This portal promotes competition by providing companies with direct access to a wide range o...
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Date answered:
3 November 2010
S3W-37080
It did not break down construction costs for each of the stations. Transport Scotland''s (TS) assessment of station costs, which informed the TS submission to the ORR prior to its price determination is as follows: Station Cost (£ million) Bathgate 4.1 to 4.8 Armadale 2.9 to 3.4 Calderc...
