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I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows: The SPS is keen to ensure that employees should have a healthy balance between work and non-work life.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people leaving local authority care following their 16th birthday were placed in bed and breakfast accommodation as their first housing destination by each local authority in each of the last five years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people leaving local authority care following their 16th birthday were placed in unsupported hostel accommodation as their first housing destination by each local authority in each of the last five years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in implementing the diabetic retinopathy screening programme across Scotland. The national overview follow-up report published by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and Diabetes UK Scotland in March 2008 of boards'' performance against the diabetes clinical standards confirmed that a national diabetic...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what codes of conduct and practice were followed in the appointments to the membership of the Zero Waste Think Tank; what selection criteria were used, and who was responsible for making these appointments.
Regarding the agreement with YouthLink to administer the £3 million local grant scheme, decisions on funding applications will be taken in May and an announcement on successful candidates will be made following this. Further announcements will be made over the course of the next two months.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 March 2008
As a result of the announcements in the UK budget, the Scottish Government will receive the amounts shown in the following table: 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 Total £ million £ million £ million £ million £ million Resource 8.1 ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 March 2008
Paul Stollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency, to answer. His response is as follows: A consultation paper is currently being drafted on proposals for reducing the carbon emissions associated with existing buildings.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the total cost has been of (a) window cleaning, (b) gardening and landscape maintenance and (c) interior and exterior cleaning of the Holyrood building in each year from 2004-05 to 2007-08. The costs are shown in the following table. The costs of window cleaning include the costs of cleaning window surr...
The dental bursary scheme has also proved popular with over 460 students currently in receipt of the dental bursary which ties students into the NHS in Scotland for a period of up to five years following graduation. S3W-10333