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Candidates from the EU would be entitled to apply forposts that they are qualified for but specific information is not held centrallyby the Scottish Executive.There has been a high-level ofinterest from Indian dentists wishing to work in Scotland. However, before beingconsidered fit to practice in the UK by the General Dental Council, applicants fromoutwith...
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its consultation paper, Reforming Complaints Handling, Building Consumer Confidence: Regulation of the Legal Profession in Scotland, what the estimate is of the costs of option D, setting up an independent complaints handling body, referred to in paragraph 5.17.
The remit of the Accounts Commission is set out in the commission’s April 2005 strategy document on its website at: http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/publications/pdf/2005/05cp02ac.rtf.The statutory functions of the commission have been amended and adjusted over time and are now:to secure the audit of all accounts of local authorities and associated bodies, either by employed staff of Audit Scotland or by firms of accountantsto secure the audit of the performance by local authorities of their Best Value and Community Planning dutiesto undertake or promote Best Value studies in local governmentto give directions to local authorities on performance informationto consider reports made by the Controller of Audit, to investigate all matters raised and to conduct hearings where appropriateto make recommendations to the Scottish Executive and to local authorities, and to impose sanctions on individual officers and members responsible for illegalityto advise the Scottish Executive on local authority accounting matters.The commission receives no financial support from the Scottish Executive.
The latest available information is set out in the following table. 2003-04 Force Number of Visibly Ethnic Officers Number of Visibly Ethnic Recruits Wastage of Visibly Ethnic Officers Promotion of Visibly Ethnic Officers Central Scotland 3 1 1 0 Dumfries and Gallowa...
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total funding for the NHS was in each year since 2000, expressed in cash and real terms at 1998-99 prices. Expenditure on health in Scotland since 2000-01 is set out in the table.
Table 1 Manufacturing1 Employee Jobs, Scotland Year Employee Jobs Dec 1990 378,500 Dec 1991 354,400 Dec 1992 326,700 Dec 1993 320,100 Dec 1994 320,500 Dec 1995 321,100 Dec 1996 305,300 Dec 1997 335,100 ...
It will provide a means to promote the co-operative business model as a real alternative to other business structures and, at a practical level, it will deliver advice and information to new and growing co-operatives businesses – Scotland wide. The Executive will fund the new agency by allocating up to £3 million for this work over the next three years.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it reconciles the answer to question S1W-33063 by Mr Jim Wallace on 21 January 2003 with the answer to question S2W-16105 by Cathy Jamieson on 4 May 2005 in respect of how often the controller of HM Prison Kilmarnock has agreed that a cell may be shared by two prisoners under section 23.4.1 of the Minute of Agreement between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison Services Limited for the Design, Construction, Management and Financing of a Prison at Kilmarnock in each quarter of the prison's operation and in the current year to date and whether it will provide a revised answer to question S2W-16105.
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to encourage European institutes to establish headquarters in Scotland; which institutes it has tried to attract, and where it has encouraged them to locate.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the quarterly baseline total was, as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule F to Minute of Agreement between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison Services Limited for the Design, Construction, Management and Financing of a Prison at Kilmarnock, in each quarter since the prison opened.