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To ask the Scottish Executive whether, following implementation of the provisions of the Scotland Act 1998 (Modifications of Schedule 5) Order 2004, consideration should be given to amending the relevant primary legislation.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 November 2004
His response is as follows:Information on police costs was provided by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) as an all-Scotland figure.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 November 2004
The Transport (Scotland) Bill presented to the Parliament on 27 October 2004 included proposals for the establishment of regional transport partnerships.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has received about cleaning standards at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Audit Scotland’s report on hospital cleaning (published in January 2003) provided an assessment of the cleanliness of wards and public areas in the individual hospitals reviewed including Glasgow Royal Infirmary.The Chief Executive of NHS Gr...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 October 2004
This is an ambitious aspiration as COAs are the smallest geographic unitsused in the official census and the building blocks for the census’ higher orderdefinitions of Scotland’s communities. An output area typically contains about50 households.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have died in Scotland over each of the last three years as a direct or indirect result of a hospital-acquired infection.
The latest, 2002-based,population projections up to the year 2018 are available from the General RegisterOffice for Scotland’s website at:http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/grosweb/grosweb.nsf/pages/02population-projections-scottishareas.
The Food Standards Agency informsme that over the past five years, there have been four recorded cases of contaminated animal feed in Scotland. Therewere two cases in 2002 and two in 2003.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that commercial confidentiality is a sufficient explanation for withholding information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. Under section 33 of the Freedomof Information (Scotland) Act 2002 information is exempt from disclosure if itsdisclosure wou...