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Specialist Nurses (Recruitment) To ask the Scottish Government what progress NHS boards have made in recruiting extra specialist nurses and whether the resources allocated for that purpose have been fully spent.
Have contractors for the Queensferry crossing improved communications to local residents, particularly in the Echline area of South Queensferry, in the light of complaints from those affected by the major civil engineering works and changes to work schedules, including extra work at weekends? The Forth crossing constructors have been proactive in providing ...
To take £20,000 as an example, someone with that income would pay £5 a month extra. That puts it in context, when one thinks of the massive sums of extra money that would come from people on £100,000 or £200,000.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether the £150 billion of cumulative investment in public services it proposes in Options for the UK Fiscal Mandate was calculated on the same basis as the £165 billion of investment referred to in Increasing Public Spending: Comparison of Policy Costings. Both papers calculated the extra funds that would be available for i...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 October 2013
Through reform, we have protected frontline services across Scotland, including the 1,000 extra police officers that have helped to cut crime to a 39-year low.
If that agreement takes the extra bureaucracy away, that is definitely responding to the representations we have had on behalf of smaller Scottish businesses in those sectors.
We have heard from other sectors that smaller firms have to employ more staff or that extra levels are being added to their bureaucracy or administrative costs, and that managing that has been relatively prohibitive for their progress.