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The outcomes of flood risk assessment, flood hazard and flood risk mapping, and flood risk management plans to be prepared under the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 may inform discussion with COSLA about resource distribution in future spending reviews.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 December 2009
The multiple sclerosis risk-sharing scheme applies across the UK. Since the scheme began in May 2002 it is estimated that the total UK costs incurred have been around £350 million.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 December 2009
I refer the member to the answer given to question S3W-13219 on 30 May 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 December 2009
NHS boards as individual employers have an obligation under the Working Time Regulations 1998 to ensure that all junior doctors are compliant with the 48 hour average working week that came into force on 1 August 2009. Compliant rotas may also contain numbers of locums and trained doctors alongside junior doctors therefore making a figure for junior doctors...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the comment of the Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary to the Justice Committee on 6 October 2009 in relation to maintaining officer numbers through 2010-11 that “every force will have looked at profiles of what it might mean if budgets are not at the level that is hoped for” (Official Report c. 2265), whether it considers that this may mean a reduction in officer numbers in some forces.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 October 2009
The agency has alerted food businesses, trade bodies and local authorities that batches of linseed imported from Canada into the EU have been found to contain an unauthorised GM variety, and has advised that UK operators who use linseed may wish to check the situation with their suppliers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-23528 by Alex Neil on 11 May 2009, whether it has a target date by which it aims for all homes in Scotland to be insulated and, if so, to what minimum standard and by what date.