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The Executive is also considering the need for further enhancement of the arrangements for disseminating flood risk and flood warning information following the successful introduction of Floodline last November.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 August 2002
I have asked Tony Cameron, chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:(a) An initial period of two years 11 months.
That estimate will be revised using data from the 2002 House Condition Survey and will be revised again following future surveys. We are currently considering, with local authorities, whether estimates might be made of the number of fuel poor households in each local authority area.
These recommendations are currently being implemented by the Scottish Executive, local authorities and individual schools following the Joint Action Plan published in December 2001.
The cost of publishing, printing and distributing each edition of the Active Communities newsletter is as follows. However, only estimated costs can be provided on the latest newsletter, as final invoices are yet to be received.
To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) is bound by any code of practice on access to information and whether it voluntarily follows any policy similar to that set out in Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information where information which would not normally be published may be pu...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints have been submitted under the complaints procedure of the Scottish Ambulance Service in each of the last three years and what the outcomes were. The following table shows the number of complaints submitted to the Scottish Ambulance Service under the NHS Complaints Procedure in the last three years, and the ...
In our guidance letter of December 2001, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council was commended for its role in promoting good practice in relation to contract research staff and was asked to work with Universities Scotland to ensure lessons from initiatives are followed up and good practice embedded.
His response is as follows:The information requested is given in the following table: 1997-981998-991999-20002000-012001-02Aberdeen00000Barlinnie32201Castle Huntly00000Cornton Vale00001Dumfries00000Edinburgh00311Glenochil00000Greenock00001Inverness00000Low Moss01000Noranside00000Perth11001Peterhead00000Polmont00000Shotts00000Total44515 S1W-26070
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each health board spent on methadone prescriptions in each of the past three years. The figures in the following table refer to prescriptions dispensed in the community and do not take into account those dispensed by hospitals or hospital-based clinics.