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To ask the Scottish Executive to provide details of the increase in commercial traffic on the A90 from Aberdeen to Fraserburgh on an annual basis from 1974 and of expenditure on the A90 on an annual basis from 1974 to date. The information available is shown below.
The combined budget for the Infrastructure Investment Fund and the Railway Passenger Partnership (RPP) is £105 million for the period 1999-2002. To date, £800,000 of RPP funding has been awarded to Edinburgh Crossrail.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of (a) the expenditure incurred to date and (b) the likely expenditure to be incurred by each local authority in the current financial year in relation to (i) Kosovan evacuees; (ii) adult asylum seekers; (iii) children of asylum seekers and (iv) unaccompanied children seeking asylum.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 February 2000
The plan will be taken forward in partnership with the Highland NHS Trusts and the Highland Council in the context of a local strategy for care of older people. The target dates for implementation of four of the recommendations range between May and August this year.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 October 1999
It is not possible to give career assistant numbers separately.The information on training for dealing with young people with special needs is dated and a new staffing survey is currently being undertaken jointly with the Department for Education and Employment.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it intends to take to address delays in allocating elderly people in hospital in West Lothian places in residential or nursing homes given that placement dates in April and May 2000 are currently being allocated and that the number of vacancies in homes exceeds the numbers awaiting places.
The refund date would be the date after which the money would become repayable.Although we believe that the idea is sensible, we also think that there should be a default position in case the refund date is overlooked when the arrangements for the repair are made.
The idea is that at next week's meeting we will flag up the key issues that we will wrestle with in our report and that we will discuss the report itself in private at subsequent meetings.I want to highlight to members that there is a strong possibility that additional meetings might be required in the two weeks after the February recess. I am sure that eve...
The deadline for submitting evidence is after the summer recess. Like Donald Gorrie, I do not want to put a particular committee in the dock, but we have become involved in the Transport and the Environment Committee's inquiry into the future of the rail industry in Scotland.
As soon as we are able to reach agreement on a sensible way forward, we will announce it. I cannot give you a date at this point. Ian Fleming has been involved in the discussions most recently.