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The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) within the Scottish Executive Health Department has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into health services and patient care within the NHS in Scotland. CSO is aware of two on-going and 10 recently completed research projects in the UK into the use of methylphenidate in the treatment of attention deficit ...
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Date answered:
23 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to extend programmes such as the Domestic Violence Probation Project in Edinburgh and Midlothian and the Fergus Project in Angus to other areas of Scotland. Criminal justice social work services are provided by groupings of local authorities and they are currently finalising their strategic plans for the per...
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Date answered:
22 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the current deficiency in funding for the Dundee Dental School has been corrected in the light of the work on the funding of dental schools undertaken by the National Purchasing Unit in Sheffield and outlined in the report by the Scottish Advisory Committee on the Dental Workforce, Workforce Planning for Dentistry in Scotland: A Strategic Review - Interim Report and Recommendations.
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Date answered:
13 November 2001
At present there are no American-style buses in operation in Scotland. However, First Group have invited Scottish local authorities to participate in a pilot to evaluate the success of American-style buses.
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Date answered:
1 November 2001
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council is responsible for allocating public funding to Scotland's further education colleges. The additional sum of £7 million being made available to the Funding Council by the Scottish Executive is part of an overall package of extra resources amounting to £15 million.
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Date answered:
29 October 2001
The criteria outlined in the Coaching Certificate were laid down on 12 February 2000 when Amateur Boxing Scotland Ltd (ABS Ltd) replaced the former Scottish Amateur Boxing Association and the Scottish Amateur Boxing Federation.
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Date answered:
23 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional sittings of the High Court of Justiciary were requisitioned by the Lord Advocate in terms of section 2(2) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 in the year up to 31 August 2001 and the two previous years.
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Date answered:
15 October 2001
Controls over the burning of waste in industrial processes, including the production of cement, is the responsibility of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). There is one cement kiln in Scotland, operated by Blue Circle near Dunbar.
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Date answered:
12 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the implications for the business and judicial resources of the supreme courts of Senators taking up public duties on UK bodies or outwith Scotland. The loss of a judge or judges to public duties elsewhere in the UK or abroad is one of the factors which the Lord President will take into account...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 October 2001
Further, Section 129(5) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 makes it an offence to cycle on a footway which has not been redetermined for use by both pedestrians and cyclists.It is of course a matter for the police and for Procurators Fiscal to proceed as they deem appropriate when any offence has been committed.