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Lothian NHSBoard is aiming to achieve agreement on the overall strategic direction and keyprinciples for reshaping the mental health services, by the end of January2004. A full public consultation, from May to September 2004, will follow. S2O-00873
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 November 2003
The rate of return forEnglish and Welsh water and sewerage companies is published annually by OFWAT.Details may be found in the annual financial performance and expenditure reporton the website at http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to protect the interests of any workers affected by job losses following the sale of Motherwell Bridge My department is in contactwith the company and the local enterprise company to monitor the implicationsof the restructuring at Motherwell Bridge and the sale of the main operating divisions to MBEngineering Solutions and any support which may be appropriate. S2W-03006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25676 by Mr Andy Kerr on 27 May 2002, whether the answer fully complies with the letter and spirit of the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the remarks made in the Sunday Times on 5 May 2002 attributed to Susan Stewart, First Secretary for Scottish Affairs in the British Embassy in Washington DC, reflect its official policy pertaining to the Gaelic language.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25646 by Cathy Jamieson on 21 May 2002, on how many occasions in each of the last five years the Children's Reporter has been informed by a social work department that a child has been placed in a unit other than that specified by a children's hearing.
No, section 26 of the Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982 states that local authorities may provide and maintain public toilets but lays no statutory obligation upon them to do so.
There was no provision for defaulting debtors in shared ownership housing in the draft scheme which was issued for consultation last year. We may wish to review this, in due course, in the light of experience of the initial operation of the scheme.