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All NHS employers were made aware of the recommendations made in the AccountCommission’s (now Audit Scotland) report Temporary Measures (2000) and were asked by the Scottish Executive to review their procedures to ensure they complied with its recommendations.All NHS employers continue to review their staffing arrangements in line with the recommendations o...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #10 million for EventScotland will be spent on (a) wages and salaries, (b) administration costs and (c) promoting Scotland as an event centre. The annual budget and business plan for EventScotland will be finalised after the arrival of the new chief executive at the end of August.
The Scottish Executive paper The Right Medicine: A Strategy for Pharmaceutical Services in Scotland, launched in February 2002, asks that community pharmacists role in smoking cessation is developed.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met Her Majesty's Government to discuss tackling the increase in the number of people with debt problems in Scotland. The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues, including the issue of debt and consumer protection.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has responded to the call from the Scottish Council for Development and Industry for an independent commission to review and report on the potential impact of financial independence for Scotland. The Executive sees no need to commission an independent study of the potential impacts of financial independence.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the budget allocated by the Department of Trade and Industry to COI Communications to publicise and facilitate the United Kingdom's public debate on genetic modification is adequate to sample opinion in Scotland. I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-822 on 25 June 2003.
The major programme of service redesign that is being driven forward across Scotland has the potential to allow NHS boards to support further development of specialist nurse roles in the context of delivering improvements to patient care.
The report by Analysys for the Executive entitled Research on broadband in Scotland contains information from a wide range of companies and organisations, which was provided on a commercial in confidence basis.
If there are delays in the right to buy process, then under the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 tenants may be able to seek a reduction in the purchase price.
However, in 2001, in response to the decline in the capercaillie population to fewer than 1,000 birds in Scotland, capercaillie, were given additional protection by listing the species in Schedule 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.