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To ask the Scottish Executive when it anticipates that the Cross Party Group on Fair Trade will adopt criteria for Fair Trade Nation status for Scotland. The criteria by which Scotlandwill measure itself against to achieve Fair Trade Nation status has alreadybeen agreed.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 September 2006
Recent reports of an increasein the incidence of squirrel pox virus in the South of Scotland have required anurgent response from SNH and FCS both of whom have supported additional measuresfor red squirrel conservation which are now underway.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 September 2006
This number is too small to provide a reliableestimate of the total number of dwellings in Scotland or in each local authorityarea without a mains electricity supply.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 September 2006
The most recent published informationon the use of the legal measures in the Antisocial Behaviour (Scotland)Act 2004 is provided in our Standing Up To Antisocial Behaviour CommunityNewsletter which can be viewed via the attached link:http://www.antisocialbehaviourscotland.com/asb/files/StandinguptoAntisocialbehaviour_Issue2.pdf.Further statistics on use of ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 August 2006
While the guidelines for trust ports encourage consultationas necessary with port user groups and stakeholders of the port, the extent to whichthis is done is a matter for each port authority to determine and will depend uponthe activities of individual ports.We are consulting on the futureof the ports across Scotland as part of the National Transport Strat...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 August 2006
As noted in answer to questionS2W-27581 on 17 August 2006, Scotland will have access to the UK avian influenzavaccine resource, and there is therefore no need to develop a separate Scottishvaccine bank.All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at http://www.scottish.par...
Thecurrent advice and treatment include supervised‘tummy time’ while the child is awake and, reinforcing the Back to Sleepmessage, positioning the child’s head on different sides each night.The Scottish Executive iscurrently in discussion with NHS Health Scotland to develop an information leaflet on this condition.The leaflet will be made available to paren...
The recent review of Genetics in Relation toHealthcare Scotland considered ways in which NHS genetics services could bestrengthened to improve all aspects of the service to patients and to cope withincreasing demand.
Expenditure on fuel used by theGovernment Car Service (Scotland) (GCS) in each of the last five years is shown in thefollowing table: Year1 Fuel Costs (£) E2001-02 39,026 2002-03 42,131 2003-04 47,178 2004-05 47,298 2005-06 59,3462 Notes:1.
The report of the public local inquiryis being given careful consideration by Scottish ministers and it is anticipatedthat a decision will be issued soon.Transport Scotland hasthe operational responsibility for this area, and can be contacted for more informationif required.