This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The number of applications coming in to Scotland and going out from Scotland through the central authority is as follows: Year Number 1999 19 outgoing; 41 incoming 2000 11 outgoing; 34 incoming 2001 8 outgoing; 28 incoming 2002 19 outgoing; 48 incoming 2003 21 outgoing; 27 incom...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 March 2004
The number of successful prosecutions obtained in Scottish courts against either the master and/or the owners of fishing vessels for breaches of fishing regulations in the last five financial years was as follows: Year Number 1998-99 80 1999-2000 55 2000-01 56 2001-02 62 2002-03 ...
However, a historic series of sales of equipped farms is publishedin the Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture (ERSA) and can be viewedat the following location:ERSA 2003 Table C12http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/agri/ersa03-52.aspThe table shows salessubtotalled for Less Favoured Areas and Non-Less Favoured Areas as well as atthe Scotland level.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 February 2004
The Scottish ministers haveno statutory power to form or participate in the forming of companies inconnection with the discharge of their functions under the National HealthService (Scotland) Act 1978. It follows from this that they cannot, inthe absence of such a power, confer such a power on a health board set up undersection 2 of the 1978 Act.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 January 2004
The Chief Scientist Office, (CSO), within the Scottish Executive Health Department, has responsibility for funding and supporting research into health and health care needs in Scotland. The CSO has allocated the following funding for research into autism in each of the last three years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 January 2004
I understand that, in the absence of evidence ofdeterioration in air quality following the construction of the M77, the boardconcluded that there was no compelling case for active monitoring ofrespiratory illnesses in the area in question.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 December 2003
The Scottish populationshare has been used to calculate the Scottish share of this tax becauseScottish air passengers tend to use airports throughout the UK.This treatment follows theprinciple that GERS measures the tax burden that is imposed on Scottishresidents within the UK.
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Date answered:
16 December 2003
Under the National Programmefor Mental Health and Well-being, there are plans already in place to include amember of the National Deaf Children’s Society (Scotland) (NDCS) within thepilot of the mental health first aid initiative. Following this, arepresentative from NDCS aims to promote positive mental well-being to youngdeaf people and to campaign for emo...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 December 2003
The prevalence (per 10,000)of HIV infection in pregnant women in Scotland from 1999 to 2002 was as follows: Year Number Tested Positive Prevalence 1999 55,374 13 2.3 2000 53,347 25 4.7 2001 52,707 16 3.0 2002 51,291 30 5.8 Note:Data q...