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The Scottish Executive has not published any further research on very sheltered housing since its 1991 report entitled The Housing Needs of Elderly People in Scotland and is not aware of any other research on this specific area of housing.
The composition of the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) is prescribed in section 1 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1996. At present the SQA comprises 12 members including the Chair and Chief Executive.
To ask the Scottish Executive why there is a variation from #70 to #140 per head of population in the prescribing budget available to each Local Health Care Co-operative and how this variation, as reported in the Audit Scotland Local Health Care Co-operatives Bulletin May 2001, affects the health of patients.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 April 2001
Once their report is received, I will be considering what further steps are needed to introduce surveillance of HAI across Scotland, and in what timescale.The application of HAI monitoring to the private health care sector is currently under consideration.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that the Nursing Homes Scotland Core Standards (Nutritional Care) NHS MEL (1999) 54 will be applied to local authority and private residential homes as recommended by the Clinical Resources Audit Group.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many inward investment manufacturing jobs were lost in (a) Scotland, (b) Argyll and Bute, (c) the Highlands and Islands, (d) Moray, (e) Orkney, (f) Shetland and (g) the Western Isles in each of the last five years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 March 2001
Under the terms of the Control of Pollution Act 1974, the West of Scotland Water Authority must obtain a consent from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency for each individual discharge it makes to the River Clyde.
The Health Technology Board for Scotland (HTBS) and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) have established a good collaborative relationship.
Scottish Executive officials received a copy of the most recent Halcrow Fox report for the North East Scotland Economic Development Partnership, Delivery of an Integrated Transport Strategy for North East Scotland, in August last year.