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The Scottish Executive has allocated £750,000 to Bookstart in Scotland over the next three financial years: £250,000 in 2005-06, £250,000 in 2006-07 and £250,000 in 2007-08.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 September 2005
A literature review commissioned by the Scottish Executive is available on Health Protection Scotland’s (HPS) website: http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/scieh/infectious/hai/infection_control/ic_guidance_publications.htm.Its findings are re-evaluated by HPS when new studies are published.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 August 2005
Scottish patients can currentlybe referred to Edinburgh for stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy and The West of Scotland Beatson Cancer Centreis planning stereotactic capability.
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have taken place with port authorities across Scotland regarding the environmental impact of ship-to-ship oil transfers.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, following the decision to allow Dumfries and Galloway to form a transport partnership in its own right, it will consider allowing any other local authorities to be exempt from the proposed regional transport partnerships if they so wish. The current Transport (Scotland) Bill 2004 places a duty on the Scottish ministers to create regional transport partnerships covering the whole of Scotland.
Scottish ministers do however continue to ensure that Scotland’s interests on the issue of taxation, as on other matters, are placed firmly on the agenda in Whitehall.