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Date answered:
19 December 2002
S1W-32524
They will also contain information covered by the exemptions set out in Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information, in particular material whose publication would "prejudice... negotiations or the effective conduct of contractual activities" (paragraph 7a of Part II of the code), making it harder to secure best value for tax...
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Date answered:
20 May 2002
S1W-25783
Ministers expect that the issues relating to the identification of best practice and the materials available to schools, can be addressed as part of this review in close discussion with relevant stakeholders.
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16 April 2002
S1W-24358
The Scottish Breastfeeding Group (SBG) and the Health Education Board for Scotland (HEBS) are working to promote, support and sustain breastfeeding and this work includes plans to re-run the advertisement Breastmilk: The World's Best Baby Food during Breastfeeding Awareness Week May 12-18 2002.
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24 January 2002
S1W-21669
There are currently no generally accepted methods of estimating numbers of other species over a large area.In recent years, DCS has moved away from national statistics to describe deer populations in Scotland due to the temporal inaccuracy of the data. DCS considers that the best method of deer control is a co-ordinated management approach at local level, w...
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11 December 2001
S1W-20142
The agenda included the following:Working with an Operating CompanyA Winter's Tale; community expectationsRoad User's PerspectiveNADICS DevelopmentsDevelopments in Met Office - TechnologyWinter Maintenance Risk and LiabilityWinter Maintenance Planning and Operation in NorwayGroup Workshops and DiscussionsOn conclusion of the event it was agreed that further liaison between the Operating Companies, local authorities and the police is vitally important in order to develop and deliver the best...
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23 August 2001
S1W-17182
As part of the implementation of the strategy, 11 Area Waste Plans are being prepared to set out the Best Practicable Environmental Option for dealing with the waste from each area.
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Date answered:
17 April 2001
S1W-14711
This has been set up to endorse and promote new models of service delivery across local authorities.In addition the Executive has also agreed to consider whether there are unnecessary barriers to the development of service solutions such as one-stop shops within constraints on local authority trading and, if so, how best to deal with them. S1W-14711
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8 January 2001
S1W-10945
Comprehensive information on the range of services provided by the health board and the local authority from the resources made available to them are available from those agencies.In the past three years 14 projects in Dumfries and Galloway have been supported by Mental Illness Specific Grant (£480,000 a year), and seven initiatives in the area have been funded from the Mental Health and Well Being Development Fund to a total value of £832,000.Guidance on the best...
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Date answered:
21 December 2000
S1W-12161
The findings of the report raise many important issues, including: properly informed policy-making; joined-up government; best use of advisory committees and expert advice; timely decision-taking; a consistent and proportionate approach to risk management and precaution - especially when dealing with uncertainty, and effective implementation of policy decis...
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Date answered:
19 September 2000
S1W-09552
To ask the Presiding Officer, further to the answer to question S1W-579 by the Presiding Officer on 3 August 1999, whether that answer was based on advice from the Holyrood project team; whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) now accepts, following the Spencely Report's use of benchmarking, that it is a recognised technique for achieving best value in construction procurement to produce comparable construction costs; whether the SPCB now has access to the information requested in S1W-579 and what use it expects to make of bench-marking during the remainder of the implementation period for the Holyrood project.
