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.
The Minister for Rural Affairs represented Scotland's interests at the Agriculture Council meeting on 20 and 21 March, the details of which are covered in his reply to PQ S1W-5703.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it plans to take in order to improve transport provision for disabled people. I announced on 13 March that I have decided to set up a national group to advise the Executive on the transport needs of people with disabilities.
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Date answered:
21 March 2000
I made clear in the Scottish Parliament on 1 March that I will be discussing the development of three year budgeting with CoSLA over the coming months.
We are currently working with the NHS in Scotland to establish national maximum waiting times, to be delivered from March 2001, in the key clinical specialties of heart disease, cancer and mental health.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 February 2000
The Scottish Utilities Forum will meet on 21 March. The Forum, which has been established by the private sector utilities in Scotland as a result of their participation in Pathfinders to the Scottish Parliament, will set its own agenda.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 December 1999
Consultation documents setting out options for changes in the police (and fire service) pension schemes including changes in contribution rates and funding were published by the Home Office in March 1998. The responses to the consultation are still under consideration.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 October 1999
The topics proposed by the UK Government for the 2001 Census of Population were announced in the White Paper (Cm 4253) published on 4 March 1999. The White Paper did not contain a proposal to include a question on Scots language in the Census in Scotland.The Scottish Executive are now responsible for the Census in Scotland and will be making proposals about...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 September 1999
The current target is that no junior doctor on an on-call rota should be contracted to work for more than an average of 72 hours per week. On 31 March 1999, 98.1% of junior doctors working in Scotland met this target.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 September 1999
The current target is that no junior doctor on an on-call rota should be contracted to work for more than an average of 72 hours per week. On 31 March 1999, 98.1% of junior doctors working in Scotland met this target.