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His response is as follows:There are areas of Scotland where there are no lead pipes on the public water supply network, although there may still be lead in customers' private service pipes and plumbing.
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20 January 2003
Section 16 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, as amended, enables NHS boards to give grant to voluntary organisations subject to certain conditions.
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16 January 2003
Information relating to the recall to custody of prisoners released on licence is published in the annual report of the Parole Board for Scotland. The board's report for 2001 was laid before the Parliament on 30 May 2002 and copies are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 21650).
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24 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30633 by Nicol Stephen on 18 November 2002, for how many years the site is projected to be operational and what the budgeted cost is for each of those years. The National Grid for Scotland web services will continue to operate for the foreseeable future.
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19 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) (i) reports to and (ii) proceedings taken by procurators fiscal and (b) convictions there have been in each of the last three years under section 19(1) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995. This information is not held centrally at present, but action is currently being taken to improve how thi...
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11 December 2002
The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and the RSPB are in the process of setting up a protocol for the reporting and investigation of crimes against birds.
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10 December 2002
Under the Fishing Vessels (Decommissioning) (Scotland) Scheme 2001, payments totalling just over £24.8 million were made to the owners of 98 fishing vessels.
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26 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what actions have been taken to work with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to assure the contribution of the broadcast media to Scotland's cultural life, as referred to in key priority 1.2 of strategic objective 1 of Creating our Future: Minding our Past.
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26 November 2002
I have asked Mr Bob Millar, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. His response is as follows:Spending on new and improved social housing was lowest in the following five years - 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2000-01.
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25 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Quality and Standards Board for Health in Scotland will determine acceptable standards of service provision and how it intends to monitor compliance with those standards.