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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail, for the period since November 1999, the numbers, grades, salaries and career experience of staff appointed to the Improving Regulation in Scotland unit and the annual running costs of the unit.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 September 2001
Further to the answer provided to question S1W-17545, I can confirm that the organisations of the 17 staff currently on secondment whose salary costs are being met by the Scottish Executive are as follows:European Commission Glasgow Employer Coalition Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland Prince's Trust Volunteers Scotland Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish Business in the Community Scottish Chambers of CommerceScottish Civic ForumScottish Council Development and IndustryScottish Council for Voluntary OrganisationsScottish Financial EnterpriseScottish PowerWestern Isles CouncilYoung Scot The Scottish Chambers of Commerce, the Scottish Council Development and Industry and Scottish Financial Enterprise all pay a contribution towards the salary costs of the secondment.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 September 2001
The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997 transpose the directive into UK law and these are enforced in Scotland by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 August 2001
The outcome of this study will assist our discussions with the SRA when it draws up the Freight Strategy for Scotland as part of its GB Freight Strategy.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether performance indicators for joint working in mental health services have been developed and monitored as recommended in the Accounts Commission for Scotland report, A Shared Approach. Both the Scottish Health Advisory Service and the Mental Welfare Commission have indicators which cover joint working.
Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change states that over the next five years 10,000 nurses and midwives will qualify in Scotland - 1,500 more than previously planned.We have no evidence of widescale recruitment by NHS Trusts in Scotland of nurses from overseas.
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.