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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that national youth organisations can receive an appropriate share of grants from the New Opportunities Fund to develop programmes across Scotland without having to apply in respect of each local authority area.
The programme has maintained steady progress over the last three years in replacing old, out of date linear accelerators and related equipment in all five of Scotland's cancer centres. The table sets out the current position:CentreNo. of Linear Accelerators Replaced/Being Replaced/Being CommissionedGlasgow81 replacement 4 additional Edinburgh54 replacementD...
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Date answered:
16 April 2002
The Scottish Breastfeeding Group (SBG) and the Health Education Board for Scotland (HEBS) are working to promote, support and sustain breastfeeding and this work includes plans to re-run the advertisement Breastmilk: The World's Best Baby Food during Breastfeeding Awareness Week May 12-18 2002.
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Date answered:
15 April 2002
Finance staff visited key contacts within the Scottish Executive, in the NHS in Scotland, and in a selection of non-deparmental public bodies (NDPBs), to raise awareness of the consequences of any decision to switch from sterling to the euro.
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Date answered:
15 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will release details of the action programme measures that must be followed by farmers in the Nitrate Vulnerable Zones as proposed in Protection of Scotland's Water Environment - Consultation on Further Scottish Nitrate Vulnerable Zones.
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Date answered:
8 February 2002
East Renfrewshire Council - Transportation Study for Glasgow Southern Circumferential Route.Orkney Islands - Public Transport Interchange project.Perth & Kinross Council - Interchange and cycle measures studySouth Ayrshire - Multi-modal travel study.Highland Council - Great Glen Transport Axis and Inverness City Centre Improvements Study.Aberdeen City Council - Urban Realm study.East Dunbartonshire Council- Integrated Community Access Plans study Fife Council - Forth Bridgehead Transportation studyNorth Lanarkshire Council - Safer Routes to School project and Quality Bus Corridors StudyWest Lothian Council - Airdrie Bathgate Railway Line reopening studyWESTRANS - park and ride strategy for West of Scotland...
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Date answered:
31 January 2002
Since then, the number of three- and four-year-olds attending part-funded pre-school education has risen significantly across Scotland. All four-year-olds now have access to a funded part-time pre-school place, and we expect that all three-year-olds will have access to a place by April 2002.
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Date answered:
11 December 2001
An action programme of management measures, such as periods when certain fertilisers cannot be applied, must be followed by farmers in NVZs to limit pollution of surface and groundwaters by nitrates from agricultural sources.The first action programme in Scotland came into force in December 1998 in the Balmalcolm NVZ in Fife.
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Date answered:
2 November 2001
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which takes the lead on funding and delivery of the New Deal. In Scotland it does this in partnership with the Scottish Executive and contributing organisations.Figures requested by unit of delivery are noted in the table:Unit of DeliveryNo. of starts to New Deal YP Number into Subsidised jobsNumber into Un...
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Date answered:
31 October 2001
The functions of visiting committees are clearly laid down in section 8 of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 and in the Prison Rules, which include provision for committee members to visit prisons, hear complaints from prisoners and report any matters of concern to the prison governor and the Scottish ministers.