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To ask the Scottish Executive whether all NHS boards are funding the limited use of anti-TNF drugs for rheumatoid arthritis to assess their cost effectiveness given that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and Health Technology Board for Scotland have already issued their evaluation and guidance.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 September 2002
Forestry and primary wood processing in Scotland currently provide over 10,000 full-time equivalent jobs, and contributes around £800 million per year to the economy.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 September 2002
Information relating to the release of prisoners on licence is published in the annual report of the Parole Board for Scotland. The board's report for 2001 was laid before the Parliament on 30 May 2002 and copies are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 September 2002
A Bathing Waters Panel was convened to identify which waters should be identified as bathing waters in Scotland. That system worked well and we would not want to make changes to bathing water designations outwith that or a similar system.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 September 2002
Rule 21 of the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Rules 1996 sets out what information, and to whom, the Reporter should communicate following the decision of a Children's Hearing.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 August 2002
Rates of day case surgery across Scotland have increased substantially in recent years, the annual number of elective surgical day cases performed by NHSScotland having more than doubled since 1992.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 August 2002
The errors were identified by finance staff in Communities Scotland through routine checks as part of an overall review of financial procedures and practices in relation to the Social Inclusion Partnership Programme.