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In addition, about 93,000 properties in Scotland were identified as lying below the five-metre contour level: a proportion of these will be at risk of coastal flooding, especially when future climate change impacts are taken into account.
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Date answered:
22 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have failed to meet timeously the requirement to publish a biennial report on flood prevention or flood mitigation on non-agricultural land as required under the Flood Prevention and Land Drainage (Scotland) Act 1997. All local authorities published biennial reports for the period up to November 2001.
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Date answered:
15 November 2002
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO), within the Scottish Executive Health Department has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into health and health care needs in Scotland. The CSO is not aware of any recent research having been carried out on links between HIV/AIDS and exposure to radioactivity.
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Date answered:
14 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when, in the consultation process for the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill prior to the bill's publication, the acquisition of adjacent salmon fishings was proposed to be subject to the crofting community right to buy.
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Date answered:
14 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports to procurators fiscal of offences under section 52 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) Scotland Act 1995 were marked no proceedings in respect of each category recognised by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in each of the last five years.
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Date answered:
13 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current legal maximum expenditure is for local authority election candidates; whether it will increase the maximum ahead of the May 2003 local elections, and whether any difference exists between the maximum permitted levels in Scotland and those in England and Wales.
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Date answered:
8 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what advice it has received on whether an action of judicial review could be brought against Scottish ministers in respect of any failure to perform their obligations under section 2 of the Education (Graduate Endowment and Student Support) (Scotland) Act 2001 where a Budget Bill introduced into the Parliament does not include...
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Date answered:
8 November 2002
Terrorism is reserved in terms of the Scotland Act 1998. The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of EU-related justice and home affairs issues and is satisfied that the draft Council Decision will be a useful tool in assessing the overall response of individual EU member states to the terrorist threat.
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Date answered:
5 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans services for children who have significant visual impairment in the light of any evidence that Visual Impairment Scotland has that the blind and partial-sight registration system does not effectively achieve its intended functions for children with visual impairment, their parents and the professionals that care f...