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There are well defined fraud procedures in place in each local authority in relation to housing benefit, and all other areas of activity, supported by the Accounts Commission for Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to promote the use of mediation procedures in medical negligence claims in Scotland. We currently have no plans to actively promote the use of mediation procedures in medical negligence claims in Scotland.All medical negligence claims in Scotland are handled through the Central Legal Office (CLO) who a...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 November 1999
The Civil Jurisdiction (Offshore Activities) Order 1987 defines a boundary further to the south in the North Sea running approximately due east at 55ยบ50' N.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 October 1999
"The Executive is already working with Regional Plan Teams to draw up new rural development programmes for Scotland under the Agenda 2000 Rural Development Regulation.The Regulation includes farm diversification, forestry and a range of other on and off farm rural development activities. Our priority is to create programmes which will contribute to the sus...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 October 1999
The Executive is already working with Regional Plan Teams to draw up new rural development programmes for Scotland under the Agenda 2000 Rural Development Regulation.The Regulation includes farm diversification, forestry and a range of other on and off farm rural development activities. Our priority is to create programmes which will contribute to the susta...
This August, we published a consultation draft of a new Scottish planning policy on physical activity and open space. Given the Executive's support for and recognition of the importance of green spaces throughout Scotland, does the minister agree that we need an audit of what we have before we lose too much more of it?
The initiative is a prime example of how traditional values, culture, skills and heritage can be welded to modern marketing and promotional activity to boost economic activity. It can do so principally in the area of tourism, but it can also boost local enterprise, entrepreneurship and skills training as an integral ...
The only thing that we, as the Government, will continue actively to consider, and have actively considered since the Scottish Executive came into being, is to listen carefully to, and act on, the medical advice that is given to us.