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The Scottish Government are aware of the demand for local authority level poverty figures and are carrying out work to improve the quality of income information recorded by the Scottish Household Survey with the aim of producing local authority - level estimates.
Due to problems with linking information on bail orders to the details of the charges that these orders relate to, it has not been possible to produce a breakdown of bail orders by type of offence for the period from 20 October 2007 onwards.
The definition of malnutrition used to produce these figures includes diagnoses of anorexia nervosa, nutritional deficiencies (e.g. vitamin A, thiamine and calcium deficiencies), nutritional anaemias and malnutrition related diabetes mellitus.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 September 2008
In particular, the eligibility criteria for the Themed Events Programme were given in the leaflet produced by EventScotland for applicants for event support.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 September 2008
In relation to the costs of the new contracts it should be noted that costings were produced around the additional finance required for these new initiatives when they were introduced, and are detailed below.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 April 2008
The Energy Saving Scotland advice network has more ambitious targets to reach twice as many people and produce four times the carbon savings; From autumn 2008, rolling out a new Home Help service providing intensive support to help households make the right choices about microgeneration; Next year allocating nearly £9 million in grants to support communit...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 December 2007
PPS is a statistical currency unit produced by Eurostat which takesaccount of the different cost of living between countries and adjusts GDP percapita accordingly.
Its committees examine current issues and produce reports which are then debated in plenary session allowing the Parliamentary Assembly to make recommendations.
Both the Scottish Parliament's Finance and Constitution Committee and the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee produced reports on the LC Memorandum in relation to the EUWB.
None of those reports have ever come through in that respect, and recognising the difficulty involved is a core strength of what we have produced at the end of the process. The council tax has a great many problems.