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The priority-based dispatch system is scheduled to be rolled out across Scotland by 2004. The system was introduced into the south east of Scotland on 1 August 2002, and into the Tayside area on 30 September.
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Date answered:
6 February 2003
The new scheme will be administered by the Students Awards Agency for Scotland. I wish to be sure that the new scheme takes full account of lessons learned from our experience of the original scheme and I shall make a further announcement when I have had the opportunity to consider Audit Scotland's report on the earl...
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Date answered:
5 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27513 by Lewis Macdonald on 7 August 2002, what subsequent progress has been made by local authorities in establishing Quality Partnerships and Quality Contract Schemes with bus operators under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001. The development of Quality Partnership schemes and Quality Contract schemes under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 is a matter for individual local transport authorities.
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Date answered:
29 January 2003
We achieved our own target of making awards of Freight Facilities Grant, by March 2002, that will remove 18 million lorry miles from Scotland's roads each year. We are also confident of meeting our future targets of making awards by March 2003 and March 2004 that will remove 21 and 23 million lorry miles respectively from Scotland's roads each year.
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22 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the statement in paragraph 163 of the Audit Scotland report, Dealing with offending by young people, that "there is no national information about the number of children in residential schools".
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21 January 2003
From the start of the programme in April 1998 to the end of September 2002, 100,100 young people have participated in NDYP in Scotland. Of this total, 1,200 were in East Dunbartonshire and 900 in East Renfrewshire.
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Date answered:
21 January 2003
Additionally, this consent carries deemed planning permission in terms of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997.This proposal will make a meaningful contribution to the delivery of the Scottish Climate Change Programme and equates to approximately 10% of the additional renewable generation needed to meet Scotland's 2010 target.
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Date answered:
3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the availability of opportunities to learn Gaelic as a second language in secondary schools throughout Scotland. The provision of Gaelic as a second language for secondary schools throughout Scotland is a matter for education authorities and they can also b...
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Date answered:
3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the value of fines payable to HM Treasury under section 211(5) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 has been for each twelve-month period from 1 July 1999 to date.