This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
There is no statutory registerof disabled people.The Labour Force Survey (2004Autumn Quarter) estimates that there were 648,000 working age peoplein Scotland, or 21 per cent of the working age population, estimatedto have a disability.
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Date answered:
15 February 2005
That statement made clear that the investmentproposed would support housing and economic growth across Scotland through investment in new infrastructure capacity.
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9 February 2005
The Scottish Executive has published research which estimates that the numbers of injecting drug users in Scotland in 2000 and 2003 were 22,805 and 18,737 respectively.
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7 February 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the evidence to the Audit Committee on 25 January 2005 by the Head of the Health Department and Chief Executive of the NHS in Scotland, what the impact on patient services was of backdating the new consultant contract.
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24 January 2005
This has taken slightly longer than anticipated but the majority of boards have now completed this process.Around 98% of consultants in Scotland gave a formal commitment to the new contract by 31 December 2003.
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Date answered:
23 December 2004
The first set of provisional reports from the information available is shown on the Drug Misuse Information Scotland website at http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/wtpilot/waiting.htm.
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9 December 2004
The question as to whether any information submitted to the Scottish Executive is confidential or not depends on the circumstances under which it was supplied and the nature of the information.You will be aware that the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 comes into force on 1 January 2005.
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7 December 2004
The Scottish Diabetes Survey 2003 estimated that over 160,000 people in Scotland have been diagnosed with diabetes, 85-90% of whom have type 2 diabetes.
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19 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive who the representatives from Scotland will be at the inaugural meeting of the North Sea Regional Advisory Council on Fisheries, detailing which organisation they will represent.