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To ask the Scottish Executive how it ensures that it obtains value for money in regard to the routine and structural maintenance of trunk roads. All trunk roads in Scotland are inspected and surveyed on a regular basis, the specific timescales of which can vary subject to the strategic nature and classification of the route.
This includes funding for a national communications campaign and national information resource, support for local Alcohol Action Teams and core grant for Alcohol Focus Scotland. S2W-08495
Detailed information on public bodies is contained on the Public Bodies and Appointments website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/government/publicbodies/. The number of public bodies in Scotland currently stands at 141.Prior to the websites establishment in 2002, detailed information on public bodies was published in the annual Cabinet Office document Public ...
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to address the decrease in the number of young people in the Highlands and Islands in light of figures from the General Register Office for Scotland that state that by the year 2018 there could be a 50% decrease in young people living there.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many GP practices there are and, of these, how many require work to be undertaken in order to be compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004, broken down by NHS board area.
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Date answered:
22 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what concerns it has at the variation in the age of medical equipment across NHS trusts and that some trusts are relying heavily on equipment that is beyond its standard life, as referred to in Audit Scotland's report, Better Equipped to Care?
Thatguidance is of course a direct response to the provisions within the MentalHealth (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and will help agencies planservices and accommodation to allow mothers with a post-natal depression to beadmitted to hospital accompanied by their babies.The interimreport of Dr Sandra Grant’s National Assessment of Mental Health Se...
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Date answered:
10 February 2004
The table shows the fundingprovided by NHS boards in Scotland to the Sleep Centre in Edinburgh: NHS Boards 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 Argyll and Clyde 3,348 3,515 3,620 3,761 Ayrshire and Arran 3,104 3,255 3,353 3,483 Borders 24,870 40,5...
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Date answered:
13 January 2004
There is no centrally heldinformation on levels of household debt in Scotland.The table shows estimatesfor median equivalised net household income, before and after housing costs, foreach of the years 1996-97 to 2001-02 inclusive, all in 2001-02 prices.Equivalisation takes accountof the size and composition of the household (see footnote to table), and it isthis measure of income that is used in the official low income statistics.The figures in the tablesare estimates only derived from a sample survey, the Family Resources Survey(FRS). The sample size of the FRS in Scotland...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 December 2003