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To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of Trust revenue spending has been devoted to the maintenance of the estate in each NHS Trust in each financial year from 1993-94 to date. The table attached gives the percentages requested for each Trust for the period 1994-95 to 1998-99.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 December 1999
Although the main effort has still to commence over 200 persons have been placed to date in short-term posts where the contract duration is a minimum of six weeks.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive to provide a breakdown of the premature deaths in Scotland in each of the last five years to date related to each of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, amphetamines, heroin, ecstasy and cocaine.
The Health Board does not believe the existing disposition of adult acute services and emergency care throughout Glasgow is a sustainable basis for the future and the HIP sets out a range of service changes to modernise and strengthen emergency services that it will be seeking to discuss with various parties. To date, no decisions have been taken.
However, I hope the fact that this package has been announced now will be hugely helpful to people who are trying to make arrangements for meeting their obligations, especially in terms of what—if I may be so blunt—their bank managers take off their future income stream.
The stock of fish is the farmer's collateral with the bank. With ISA so prevalent and impossibly expensive to insure against, the banks will stop lending money against a farm full of fish that may have to be slaughtered before they are sold.
There is another debate at a national level about banking, which also involves the change in the nature of rural post offices and the effect of that on women's access to finance and credit and their requirement for a bank.
Members may recall that we made a drafting comment on subsection (2) of section 29, "Short title and commencement", and the date of commencement. Although, strictly speaking, it was not within the committee's remit to do that, our point has been taken on board by the Executive—that was a success.
There were no formal inspection powers beyond that. To date, its inspection of the three main areas of social work services—children's services, community care and criminal justice—has been on the basis of consent.The draft regulations set out the powers that SWIA will be able to use in the conduct of inspections.