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Charity shops perform a valuable function and the principle of rates relief is long established. H M Treasury recently consulted on the whole question of charity taxation, including rates relief for charity shops.
To ask the Scottish Executive what tests are carried out on non-GM crops grown within a 100 m radius of the GM crop trials. In the farm scale evaluations, the same ecological research is conducted on the non-GM crops grown as a control crop as is conducted on the adjacent GM crop.
These data are released under National Statistics.2. Data are from ISD(M)4, an annual collection by ISD of consultant and staff grade medical and dental vacancies. 3.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many operations were cancelled in each health board area between: (a) 31 July 2000 and 4 August 2000; (b) 7 August 2000 and 11 August 2000; (c) 14 August 2000 and 18 August 2000; (d) 21 August 2000 and 25 August 2000; (e) 28 August 2000 and 1 September 2000; (f) 4 September 2000 and 8 September 2000; (g) 11 September 2000 and 15 September 2000; (h) 2 August 1999 and 6 August 1999; (i) 2 August 1999 and 6 August 1999; (j) 16 August 1999 and 20 August 1999; (k) 23 August 1999 and 27 August 1999; (l) 30 August 1999 and 3 September 1999; (m...
Correspondence Item 5 on the agenda is correspondence; I will comment on some of the items on our long list.The letter from Mrs D M Islam raises a fairly complex matter regarding her employers.
Scottish ministers do not havea statutory role to consent to suspension of detention of non-restricted patients.The underpinning principles in relation to escorted and unescorted leave for restrictedpatients are contained in Chapter 5 (Suspension of Detention) of the Memorandumof Procedure which provides guidance to professionals managing restricted patients.The Memorandum of Procedure is currently being revised to take account of the recommendations contained in the Mental Welfare Commission Inquiry Report intothe care and treatment of Mr L and Mr M...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 September 2005
The winter maintenance costs of the Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) contracts for the A74(M) between Millbank (Junction 12) and the Scottish Border and the M77 between Malletsheugh (Junction 5) and Meiklewood Interchange are included in the monthly payments to each DBFO contractor and cannot be identified separately.