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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
No formal studies have been undertaken in this area, but the Scottish Executive's recently published strategy for the Enterprise Network, entitled A Smart Successful Scotland, (Parliament Reference Centre Bib reference number 10982) made clear that demographic change and its impact on the Scottish economy is a matter which needs further study.The economic and social status of rural Scotland is routinely monitored.
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Date answered:
26 February 2001
The Executive is discussing with Audit Scotland how information on local authorities' support for carers should be reflected in their statutory performance indicators.
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Date answered:
21 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to complete a national survey to measure the extent of domestic violence across Scotland. The Scottish Crime Survey (SCS) collects information on the extent of domestic violence from a nationally representative sample of adults living in private households across Scotland.