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To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-12712 by Shona Robison on 13 May 2008, what progress the Scottish Ambulance Service has made in providing training to its volunteer ambulance car drivers.
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Date answered:
29 April 2009
The responsibility and accountability for community nursing caseloads will be determined through the structures established in the service model at a local level. Key roles supporting this may be a team leader, advanced practitioner or community health nurse.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the economic downturn may have resulted in more ferries being available worldwide that could have potential use on a Lochboisdale to Mallaig route.
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Date answered:
11 March 2009
In determining a planning application, consideration will be given to a range of issues including the extent to which a proposal may affect the amenity and existing use of land and buildings which ought to be protected in the public interest, not whether owners or occupiers of neighbouring properties would experience financial or other loss from a particula...
Information on breastfeeding rates at the six-to-eight-week review are published on the ISD Scotland website under Child Health at www.isdscotland.org/child_breastfeeding and are updated annually in May. The latest published statistics are for children born in 2007 and these are available for the 11 NHS board areas that participate in the Child Health Syste...
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Date answered:
6 February 2009
Number of Meningitis B cases reported to HPS Year 1999 105 2000 117 2001 106 2002 62 2003 86 2004 68 2005 66 2006 63 2007 73 2008* 57 Note: *2008 data is still provisional and may...
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Date answered:
2 February 2009
Sentencing decisions are, and will remain, the responsibility of our judges, who are best placed to decide, given the circumstances of each case, what the most appropriate sentence may be. There is nothing in our plans that will change that.
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Date answered:
26 January 2009
Currently, legislation set by the UK Government includes more severe penalties for repeat offenders and we are considering, as part of the forthcoming road safety strategy, what further actions may be appropriate for repeat drink and drug drive offenders.
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Date answered:
15 January 2009
It is estimated that annual net income potential from joint ventures for renewable energy development might be expected to reach perhaps £10 million per year by 2012 and perhaps £30 million per year by 2020. Leasing arrangements may produce a lower return, but that will depend on the prevailing economic conditions, lease conditions and success of individual...