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To ask the Scottish Executive how many health boards in Scotland allow children under 16 to sign their own sight test forms to request an eye examination.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what work has been undertaken to collate information on the number of community co-operatives in Scotland. I refer to the answer given to question S1W-1467.
There are also outstanding bits of information that we have yet to receive from HMIE and Audit Scotland, unless we have received them and they have not been circulated.
There will obviously be a further report from Audit Scotland on issues surrounding the response, so there will be an opportunity for us to consider matters further and bring the two together.
We are in the process of passing the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Bill, but bullet point 3 on page 4 of the draft covenant document introduces a secrecy clause into the covenant.
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Bill The first item on the agenda is scrutiny of the delegated powers in the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Bill at stage 1.Part 1 of the bill is entitled "Access to information held by Scottish public authorities" and section 4 is entitled "Amendment of schedule 1".
As Fiona Hyslop said, in the case of a housing consolidation bill, that would almost certainly be the committee that considered the Housing (Scotland) Bill. The situation is as described in the guidance.
The report calls for more investigation into the law to find out whether some sort of derogation would be allowed in such circumstances.RSPB Scotland e-mailed me about the paper and suggested one or two changes.