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To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made with the Central Heating Installation Programme. The Scottish Executive announced yesterday that it is investigating claims in relation to the contract for the delivery of its central heating programme by the Eaga Partnership.
The duty is intended to ensure that people who do not know how to go about making a complaint can be given guidance by the commission about the process involved.I do not agree with Bill Aitken that there is a risk that the commission could stray into the substance of complaints in giving such assistance. As Jeremy Purvis rightly pointed out, section 25 clea...
This will allow us to accelerate the programme so that it can be completed by 2005 and enable us to extend it to include other deserving cases.Information on the number of heating systems required for the overall programme is not held centrally.
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to use private sector hospitals to assist NHS patients in future. I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-03884.
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to introduce prostate-specific antigen testing to assist in diagnosing prostate cancer. I refer the member to my answer to question S1W-7171.
Her response isas follows:Any applicant who meets theeligibility criteria set out in the central heating programme, and comesforward before the programme’s close, will receive a replacement centralheating system.