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The evaluation of the free school meals trial will address the following research objectives: investigateprocess and practical issues for local authorities and schools in implementing freeschool meals; measure the change in uptake of school meals by primary 1 to primary3 pupils, and by primary 4 to 7 pupils; assess the range of health and other potentialben...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prescriptions for treatments involving methylphenidate have been issued in each year since 1990. The following tableshows the number of prescribed items for treatments involving methylphenidate hydrochloride(both standard and modified release preparations) prescribed in the community inScotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 September 2007
Through the nationalcontinuing professional development framework, the Scottish Executive expects allteachers to be able to recognise and know how to support pupils with additionalsupport needs, including dyslexia.In support of this,following recent talks with the Executive, the General Teaching Council for Scotland have now added five new areas to their pr...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 August 2007
I have askedAngiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Herresponse is as follows:“Communities Scotland has received Standard Delivery Plans (SDPs) fromalmost all local authorities required to do so, setting out how they willachieve the Scottish Housing Quality Standard.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 August 2007
These are published annually in a special article in December's energytrends, and can be accessed via the following link:http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/statistics/publications/trends/index.html.
The Scottish Government believes that the Saltire is Scotland''s national flag and all such matters should be the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Ministers.Such matters are currently the subject of a consultation exercise following the Government''s publication of the constitutional reform green paper The Governance of Britain, publis...
The informationthat is available is set out in the following table. Period Applications Received Basic Standard/Enhanced 2002-03 2,191 136,429 2003-04 178,818 187,162 2004-05 129,630 245,067 2005-06 209,484 331,267 2006-07 258,396 340,...
Unfortunately the four companies involved did not follow their initialinterest up by submitting a tender within the deadline set.It was agreed early in 2006 thatefforts should continue, as part of a negotiated procedure, to identify a suitableoperator for the route.
The National Institute for Healthand Clinical Excellence (NICE) draft single technology appraisal (STA) on Xolairdoes not constitute the Institute’s formal guidance and the draft recommendationsmay change following consultation.NICE STA guidance does not applyin Scotland where the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) providesearly advice on newly licensed me...