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Date answered:
8 August 2003
S2W-01540
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-856 by Ross Finnie on 14 July 2003, whether it will clarify the statement that the creation of a European fund to aid fishing communities "would not increase public expenditure in Scotland because of the UK's public spending arrangements" and whether this statement would apply solely to t...
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Date answered:
14 July 2003
S2W-01005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the median waiting time was for (a) cardiac surgery, (b) general surgery and (c) child psychiatry in the (i) Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust area and (ii) Scotland in the latest quarter for which figures are available.
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Date answered:
23 June 2003
S2W-00790
In October 2002 the Executive launched Care in Scotland, a national recruitment and awareness campaign to attract more people of all ages into social care.
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Date answered:
6 June 2003
S2W-00023
The Executive is working with the Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland on trials of non-standard lower cost signs for variable speed limits.
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Date answered:
3 March 2003
S1W-34148
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to the recent amendment to the Federal Rule of Evidence No 702 as adopted by the United States Congress which took effect on 1 December 2000 for courts in the United States of America and, in particular, the provision in this rule that states "if scientific, technical, or other specialised knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case"; whether it will assess the present rules of expert evidence in Scotland...
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Date answered:
3 March 2003
S1W-34146
We have considered the recent developments in the law of expert evidence in the United States of America, including the judgements in the Daubert and Kumho Tire Co cases and the Federal Rule of Evidence No 702. The rules of evidence in Scotland in relation to skilled witnesses are comparable in many respects, but we do not consider that they have any implic...
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Date answered:
14 February 2003
S1W-33383
When the EU Regulation is finally agreed, Scottish ministers will be responsible for bringing forward any transposing legislation that may be needed to ensure it is given full effect in Scotland. S1W-33383
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Date answered:
10 February 2003
S1W-33864
We are also increasing by the same factor the standard rates of tuition fee payments made to institutions on behalf of eligible students by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland. This increase is consistent with that announced by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills on 19 December 2002 for English and Welsh domiciled students.The Scottish Furthe...
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Date answered:
18 December 2002
S1W-32388
The current air quality objectives for PM10 are:a 24-hour mean of 50mg/m3 not to be exceeded more than 35 times a year, andan annual mean of 40mg/m3.Both objectives are to be achieved by 31 December 2004.The information requested on exceedences is given in the following table for the 24-hour mean objective for the five national monitoring network sites in Scotland. 2000200120021Aberdeen322Edinburgh Centre51115Glasgow Centre27133Glasgow Kerbside233626Grangemouth2-44Notes:1.
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Date answered:
18 December 2002
S1W-32382
All Scottish local authorities in Scotland have completed the first stage of the review and assessment process and no authority has indicated any possible exceedence of the air quality objectives in areas with mining, quarrying or construction activity.
