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To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made with the new beef cattle scheme and when the first payments will be issued. Following consultation with stakeholders, we have developed a scheme under the national envelope provisions which will be called the Scottish Beef Calf scheme.
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Date answered:
31 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide statistics in respect of diagnoses of secondary cancers amongst Scottish breast cancer patients in each of the last five years. The following table shows numbers of breast cancer cases diagnosed in the years 1997 to 2001, and the numbers and percentages which involved secondary tumours at the time of di...
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Date answered:
27 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what improvements are planned for the A75 over the next five years; what the estimated cost of each improvement is, and what the planned date for the start of construction is in each case. The following improvements to the A75 are currently being prepared.
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Date answered:
24 January 2005
The most recent data available is set out in the following table:Number of Children Referred to Children’s Hearings 2001-02 2002-03 Non-Offence Grounds 3,330 3,318 Offence Grounds 1,446 1,334 Both 699 748 Total 5,475 5,400 S2W-13499
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Date answered:
12 January 2005
The income generated by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) in the last six years, independent of Grant in Aid from the Executive together with year-on-year percentage changes is shown in the following table: Fiscal Year Receipts from Fees and Charges and other Income (£ Million) Year-on-Year Percentage Change ...
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Date answered:
24 December 2004
All NHS boardswill be required to follow the national implementation plan for these drugs.Local NHS boards will agree the implementationplan for drugs where alternative drug treatment already exists.
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Date answered:
10 December 2004
The available information is given in the following table.Percentage of Persons Proceeded Against for Crimes of Indecency1 with a Charge Proved, 1998-2002 Crimes of Indecency 1998 1999 2000 2001 20022 Rape and attempted rape 61 58 58 66 60 Indecent assault 81 ...
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Date answered:
2 December 2004
There were also 3,736 undergraduate students on Bachelor of Education (BEd) courses. The following table shows this figure broken down by year of course.BEd Students at Higher Education Institutions in Scotland 2002-03 by Year of Course First Year 1,265 Second Year 974 Third Year 803 Fourth Year 694 Total ...
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Date answered:
10 November 2004
In the last year, authorisation has been given once, in response to a request from NHS Greater Glasgow following a major accident at a warehouse in the city in May 2004.Thirty-three patients had their planned in-patient/day case treatment, mainly in orthopaedics and plastic surgery, postponed and availability status code 9 applied.
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Date answered:
9 November 2004
The numbers of charges for driving without insurance contrary to section 143 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 reported to the Procurators Fiscal at Arbroath, Dundee and Stonehaven in the last three financial years and which resulted in criminal proceedings being instructed are shown in the following table. Procurator Fiscal’s Office Financial Ye...