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Date answered:
19 September 2003
S2W-02403
To ask the Scottish Executive what assurances it will give regarding the proposed programme of expenditure for upgrading trains and platforms on the Fife Circle rail line and its commitment in A Partnership for a Better Scotland that its spending on transport will reach #1 billion per year by the end of 2006, of which 70% will be targeted on public transp...
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Date answered:
1 September 2003
S2W-01892
It will also find out more about local good practice, so wecan improve the way needs are assessed and met for people with learningdisabilities in prisons or secure accommodation throughout Scotland. Theresearch is being done by the Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health.Work should be completed at the end of October 2003.The Chief Scientist Officewit...
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Date answered:
1 September 2003
S2W-01888
As wenote in our Lifelong Learning Strategy Life through Learning; Learningthrough Life, which was published in February of this year, uneven accessto lifelong learning has the capacity to entrench inequalities. Our goal is tocreate a Scotland where people have the chanceto learn, irrespective of their background or current personal circumstancesand we are ...
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27 August 2003
S2W-01818
The number of vacant Accident and emergency staff grade posts in NHSScotland by NHS board area for each of the last three years is shown in the table.Table 1: Staff Grade Vacancies Within Accident and Emergency, by NHS Board at 30 September. 2000 2001 2002 Scotland 1 3 1 Argyll and Clyde ...
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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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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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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...
