There are 211,414 results relating to "Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill"
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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 June 2006
S2W-25543
To ask the Scottish Executive, given (a) the statement by the Minister for Justice on 22 April 2006 at the launch of the Mulhearn Action Plan for the Scottish Fingerprint Service that, in order to restore public confidence in the Scottish Criminal Record Office (SCRO), “I am determined to ensure that the Scottish Fingerprint Service is recognised - at home and abroad - as truly world class”, (b) that the Scottish Ministers have concluded that the identification by SCRO experts of the Shirley McKie print is wrong and that the Mulhearn report confirmed this conclusion, (c) the statements made by the Director and the Deputy Director of SCRO to the Justice 1 Committee on 26 April 2006 that a majority of experts at SCRO disagreed with the Scottish Ministers who said the print was wrong (Official Report, Justice 1 Committee, c. 2878) and (d) that these experts had confirmed these beliefs in a letter, dated 14 November 2005, to Lord Cullen of Whitekirk, whether it would agree that the experts’ behaviour (i) undermines the Minister’s goal of a “truly world class” fingerprint service, (ii) reduces public faith in that service and (iii) constitutes a danger to any persons appearing before Scottish courts on the basis of fingerprint evidence, whether it will revoke with immediate effect the expert status conferred on those SCRO experts under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland...
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Date answered:
27 April 2006
S2W-24719
The available information ondiversions from prosecution to social work interventions is given in the followingtable.Number of Criminal Justice SocialWork Diversion from Prosecution Cases Commenced, by Local Authority, 2001-02 to2004-05 Local Authority 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 Aberdeen City 20 34 50 30 Aberdeenshire 28 30 26 40 Angus 7 45 20 31 Argyll and Bute 7 5 3 6 Clackmannanshire 12 19 18 19 Dumfries and Galloway 34 33 - 20 Dundee City - 79 35 6 East Ayrshire 15 8 3 2 East Dunbartonshire 3 13 12 1 East Lothian 22 6 23 32 East Renfrewshire 1 - 2 3 Edinburgh, City of 101 81 248 271 Eilean Siar 3 - 5 2 Falkirk 6 52 117 52 Fife 61 68 80 30 Glasgow City 43 42 128 25 Highland 14 25 71 13 Inverclyde 21 14 14 6 Midlothian1 - - - - Moray 15 22 - 4 North Ayrshire 15 9 7 30 North Lanarkshire 72 41 93 104 Orkney Islands 10 6 7 13 Perth and Kinross 95 65 46 2 Renfrewshire 39 20 17 11 Scottish Borders 20 9 19 37 Shetland Islands 3 10 2 12 South Ayrshire 10 14 9 8 South Lanarkshire 82 134 126 111 Stirling 6 24 41 37 West Dunbartonshire 21 30 16 10 West Lothian 90 77 102 96 Scotland...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 February 2006
S2W-22877
The ambulance service met the timescale in all but one of those cases – a performance of 96% against a target of 95%.There have been fluctuations in the number of calls classified as “emergency” in the past eight years and over the last year the ambulance service has been trying to ensure that the definitions for ordering air ambulance services - across the whole of Scotland - are followed more consistently.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 November 2005
S2W-19964
The average is affected disproportionately by a small number of waits that may be clinically appropriate. As NHS Scotland makes progress towards meeting the Executive’s waiting time targets and treats more patients who have had longer waits, median waiting times will rise This can be demonstrated from the information in Table 1. in Q2 2002 the median wait w...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 November 2005
S2W-19952
Latest figures are at 30 September 2004.NHSScotland Workforce Statistics, HCHS Medical and Dental Staff by Country of Qualification, Headcount as at 30 September 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 Total 10,608 10,381 10,256 9,646 9,325 9,273 Scotland 7,034 7,004 6,974 6,552 6,343 6,306 Other UK/UK Unspecified 1,530 1,533 1,518 1,486 1,459 1,433 Other EEA Countries1 394 375 375 371 360 390 Rest of World 1,650 1,469 1,389 1,237 1,163 1,144 Notes:HCHS refers to the Hospital, Community and Public Health Services of the NHS.1.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 September 2005
S2W-17919
For example, of the 56,187 deaths registered in 2004, tobacco/smoking was mentioned on fewer than 300 occasions. However, in Health in Scotland 2004, the Chief Medical Officer reported that some 13,000 Scots die each year from smoking-related illness.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 September 2005
S2W-18415
As partnerships and the programme have expanded, additional geographic areas have been included where camera sites may already have been operated by the police in conjunction with the roads authorities. Central Scotland is not currently part of the programme and therefore no figures are included for this area.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 July 2005
S2W-17475
The NHS 24 servicebegan rolling out across Scotland in May 2002 and was completed in November 2004.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 May 2005
S2W-16316
The following table provides details of the events taking place in Scotland during the UK Presidency of the European Union, which Scottish ministers currently plan to attend.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 May 2005
S2W-15815
The table is reissued with the footnotes that were omitted in the answer to question S2W-2711.Table 1: 16 to 19 Year Olds Not in Education, Training or Employment (NEET) in Scotland, by gender NEET March 1996 to February 1997 March 1997 to February 1998 March 1998 to February 1999 March 1999 to February 2000 ...
