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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 January 2004
Motorways pass through orare planned to pass through Glasgow and Cumbernauld but no motorway bisects oris planned to bisect any town in Scotland. S2W-04476
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 January 2004
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Herresponse is as follows:As at October 2003, localauthorities had installed 9,702 systems and housing associations had installed2,938.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 January 2004
Discussionshave taken place with key stakeholders including bus operators on theconcessionary fares commitments outlined in A Partnership for aBetter Scotland. These commitments include delivery of concessionary travelacross local authority boundaries through the introduction of a national freeoff-peak bus scheme for older people and people with disabilitie...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its current estimate is of the cost of training qualified voluntary sector staff to meet the additional qualification requirements for adult care staff as a consequence of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 in each year to 2006-07.
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Date answered:
6 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when funding will be available from Communities Scotland for sub-post offices within the Kirkcaldy parliamentary constituency for capital improvements to their businesses.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the annual running expenditure by the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office will be presented on the basis of where it is spent rather than on a pro-rata basis in this year's Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland report (GERS) and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-3077 by Ross Finnie on 21 November 2003, whether increased travel time and costs adversely affected the savings achieved through setting a lower hourly rate for the meat hygiene service for official veterinary surgeons in Scotland. The savings of 12.5% are netsavings based on an hourly ra...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 December 2003
Scottish Executive officialshave met with representatives of the Sea Vision UK campaign and been briefed onits plans to promote the maritime sector in Scotland. The Executive wasalso represented at the first meeting of Scottish partner organisations in July.The Executive supports the objective of Sea Vision UK to raiseawareness of the maritime sector and to...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 December 2003
The Executive is awareof some countries around the world where like Scotland – the provision ofwater and waste water services has remained in the public sector.