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We are proud of our achievements in the first eight years of the Parliament through working in partnership to deliver 20 per cent of our electricity from renewables by 2010, a target that will be upped to 40 per cent by 2020. Given the rate of progress over the past eight years, our election manifesto committed us to working to raise that figure to 50 per cent by 2020.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been admitted to a hospital as a result of overdosing on methadone in each year since 2008-09, also broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) hospital. The following table shows the number of patients discharged from hospitals in Scotland with a diagnosis of poisoning by methadone for 2008-09 and 2009-10, by he...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 March 2011
I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: Home leave is generally granted as part of the preparation of prisoners for release.
In addition, the Keeper has set the following registration and customer service performance targets, which Scottish Ministers endorse: Where it is in the Keeper''s power and is legally appropriate to: Complete the registration of Sasine writs within an upper limit of 40 days. 80% will be completed within 20 days.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many rural development grants have been awarded in the Borders and at what (a) total and (b) average value, in each year since 2007. The following table sets out funding value and cases per year in the Borders for schemes under the current Scotland Rural Development Programme 2007-13, worth some £65.8 million in total.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 February 2011
The Scottish Patients at Risk of Readmission and Admission (SPARRA) tool is used to estimate the future risk of unscheduled inpatient admission of someone who has experienced at least one such admission in the preceding three years. The following table shows the number of people meeting this criterion in each NHS board at the start of both financial years....
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Date answered:
4 February 2011
Note that local authorities are not ideal proxies for cities in all cases, for example the Highland local authority and the city of Inverness. The following table shows the median gross weekly pay for employee by gender in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 January 2011
I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: Castle Huntly (a) Prisoners work in the kitchen, grounds and gardens, in cleaning parties and waste management and in limited decorating of accommodation areas.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 January 2011
The information is shown in the following table. Breakdown of Tobacco Test Purchasing Failures per Authority between 1 April 2008 and 30 September 2010.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 January 2011
Participating areas were announced on 6 October 2010. Details are as follows: Local Authority Properties Area Aberdeen City 8,700 Torry, Nigg and Cove Aberdeenshire 5,590 Fraserburgh Argyll and Bute 2,345 Milton and Ardenslate, Dunoon ...