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Out of its own budget, the Scottish Executive spent over £30 million on Scotland-wide measures designed to alleviate hardship and to assist with economic restructuring.
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Date answered:
19 December 2002
The Civil Justice and International Division of the Justice Department supports the Minister for Justice as the central authority for the operation in Scotland of Hague Conventions on Child Abduction, Maintenance, Service and Evidence.
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Date answered:
10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when and how the transitional Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Scotland) 2000 will be replaced. There is no proposal to replace the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (PPC).
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Date answered:
25 November 2002
Guidance and assistance is available to GPs from NHS Education for Scotland via the Postgraduate Directors of General Practice Education.The training of other health care professionals is a matter for NHS trusts at local level to determine.
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Date answered:
13 November 2002
I announced on 14 December 2000 that Environmentally Sensitive Area schemes (ESA) would close to new applications on 31 December 2000. All farmers and crofters in Scotland are eligible to apply to join the Rural Stewardship Scheme, including those with an existing ESA scheme agreement.I undertook a wide-ranging consultation exercise in March of this year, on proposals for a number of changes to the operation of agri-environment schemes as part of a process of improving the management of the limited resources contained within the Rural Development Plan for Scotland.
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Date answered:
4 November 2002
The Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland also have an agreement that a solicitor who instructs an advocate has a responsibility to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, payment of the advocate's fees.
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Date answered:
24 October 2002
However, the capital budget, including capital receipts, available to NHS Scotland in each year was as follows:Year£ million1997-981361998-991661999-20002172000-012482001-02285A proportion of each year's budget was allocated on a formula basis to NHS trusts for routine maintenance, achievement of statutory standards, the purchase of small items of equipment...
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Date answered:
8 October 2002
Technical Notes setting out the detail for each target in Building a Better Scotland - Spending Proposals 2003-06: What the money buys will be available shortly.
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Date answered:
25 September 2002
At 1 April 2002, when Scottish Water took over from the former authorities, 2,222 staff were transferred in from the West of Scotland Water Authority, 1,558 from the east, and 1,632 from the north.