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The information requested is shown in the following table, which shows the percentage of adults (16+) in NHS Tayside who smoke 20 or more cigarettes a day in combined years 2005-06 and 2007-08, broken down by gender.
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Date answered:
10 March 2011
An extract of the published figures on searches is as follows. Year Total Searches Positive Searches Percentage Positive 2004-05 87,190 7,513 8.6 2005-06 91,336 6,794 7.4 2006-07 133,806 9,603 ...
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Date answered:
10 March 2011
Information for 2008-09 and 2009-10 is as follows: Year Grampian WTE Highland WTE Orkney WTE Shetland WTE Western Isles WTE 2008-09 74.5 62.7 5.9 22.0 11.0 2009-10 36.0 62.9 6.1 ...
In the period 2008-10 the Scottish Government provided in excess of £3 million in transitional funding to assist Healthy Living Centres move to a sustainable financial position, following the cessation of the five year Big Lottery Fund programme.
I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows: There have been no changes to the prison rules since May 2007 relating to effective contact between parents and children.
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Date answered:
24 February 2011
The 2010-11 position has been restated to reflect transfers in respect of the removal of the cost of capital (following revised HM Treasury guidance), transfer of funding in respect of Adult Support and Protection Act to local government and other corporate transfers, therefore a more valid comparison is to use the prior year figure included in the current ...
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Date answered:
10 February 2011
NSS do however collate sickness absence figures for employees absent for the following reasons - anxiety, stress, depression, other psychological illness.
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Date answered:
3 February 2011
The information you requested in provided in the following tables. Table 1 Number of Patients in Scotland who had Teeth Extracted in the NHS General Dental Service (GDS) Setting in 2009-10 Patient age 0 - 4 years 5 - 18 years Over 18 578 55,802 251,779 Source: MIDAS (Management Inform...
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Date answered:
3 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37988 by Alex Neil on 13 December 2010, what payments have been made from the Achieving our Potential budget since it was introduced, broken down by (a) award, (b) receiving organisation and (c) payment date The following payments have been allocated from the Achieving our Potential progr...
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Date answered:
1 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what access to prisoners the Scottish Prison Service will be required to provide to those canvassing for votes following the UK Government’s announcement on prisoner voting; when it anticipates such access to commence; what discussions it had with the UK Government prior to the announcement; what discussion it has had since th...