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The draft Guidance on the Circumstances in which Parents may Choose to Educate their Children at Home was available on the Scottish Executive website on 27 December 2001.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 January 2002
Development funding to assist with the provision of affordable housing will continue to be available in Edinburgh, as elsewhere, and the Act provides that responsibility for this funding may pass to local authorities to underpin their strategic planning role.From a land use planning perspective, National Planning Policy Guideline (NPPG) 3: Land for Housing notes that planning authorities may properly take account of the need for affordable housing when formulating their development plan policies.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 February 2001
It is not possible to provide information prior to 1998-1999 because the codes used to record ADD/ADHD were not in use before that period.YearEstimated number of patients1998-991,6001999-20001,800These data refer to diagnoses known to the patients' GP. There may be other patients whose condition is managed by specialist services, such as child psychiatry, who may not see their GP for these conditions and will therefore not be included in the data.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 January 2001
The scope of the monitoring is determined by criteria such as the amount of radioactivity discharged and the potential environmental impact of the discharge.SEPA's monitoring programme is kept under review to identify where further monitoring may be required as a consequence of changes in operating practices which may affect radioactive discharges.Any additional monitoring costs which SEPA might incur as a result of the change of ownership of a nuclear site would fall to be recovered from the site operator.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 December 2000
The Scottish Ambulance Service however may hold the data locally and you may therefore wish to write to Mr Adrian Lucas, Chief Executive, Scottish Ambulance Service, National Headquarters, Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh, EH10 5UU with your request.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 September 2000
The total number of admissions to secure units for the last five years was as follows:Year ended 31 MarchNumber of admissions*19952331996225199724419982641999265*Some children may have been admitted more than once in any one year.The local authority breakdown is only available from the start of the current unitary authorities, from 1997, as shown in the table below.Number of admissions* to secure accommodation in the year ended 31st March by child's home local authorityChild's home local authority199919981997No details available1636Aberdeen City19169Aberdeenshire6411Angus589Argyll & Bute11Clackmannanshire22Dumfries & Galloway314Dundee City131418East Ayrshire964East Dunbartonshire111East Lothian125East Renfrewshire41Edinburgh, City of538564Falkirk343Fife10177Glasgow City513331Highland443Inverclyde113Midlothian315Moray15North Ayrshire1265North Lanarkshire664Orkney Islands2Perth & Kinross2211Renfrewshire5157Scottish Borders511South Ayrshire632South Lanarkshire344Stirling33West Dunbartonshire674West Lothian121312Outwith Scotland21TOTAL265264244*Some children may have been admitted more than once in any one year.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement by the Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care (25 May 2000 Col. 1200), whether it will recognise the eight week intensive physiotherapy treatment offered to dyspraxic children as a standard and beneficial treatment.
I announced the names of the members of the Health Technology Board for Scotland on 18 May. At that time, arrangements on the appointment of the Director had still to be finalised.