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Date answered:
30 April 2002
S1W-25095
Also, the Executive's Training for Work programme aims to help mothers who wish to return to work through the provision of appropriate training and structured work activity.At UK level, the New Deal for Lone Parents aims to provide lone parents, of whom over 90% are women, with the help they need to take up and remain in employment.Additionally, the Employm...
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Date answered:
28 January 2002
S1W-21839
The total amount of grant allocated to ABDS applicants in 2001 was £4,057,437 and to date £502,402 has been claimed and issued.The ABDS is funded jointly by the Scottish Executive and by the EU as part of the Highlands and Islands Special Transitional Programme. £3.99 million is available for allocation to ABDS applicants in year 2002.
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Date answered:
15 January 2002
S1W-18843
We are investing £230,000 to double the size of the sample in Scotland and have agreed a programme to change the way they generate Scottish information, in order that we can produce more detailed income data.A detailed description of the methodology used in calculating the low income figures is available in the Department for Work and Pensions' annual publi...
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Date answered:
6 November 2001
S1W-19337
These resources are being distributed to authorities on the basis of the education element of the formula, which is at present used for the allocation of capital consents on non-housing programmes under section 94 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
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Date answered:
9 October 2001
S1W-18932
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give a progress report on the work of the Ministerial Group on Sustainable Scotland and their future work programme. The Ministerial Group on Sustainable Scotland has been a key mechanism for joined-up-thinking and action on sustainable development in the Scottish Executive.
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Date answered:
4 October 2001
S1W-18372
This is a largely transitional measure, intended to ensure that key activity can continue whilst changes to systems and working practices, that will permit the standards required by law, ethics and policy to be met, are made.In Scotland, we have been consulting on our own programme of change and expect the results of this consultation to be available later ...
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Date answered:
17 April 2001
S1W-13626
In response to a measles outbreak in Scotland, there was a schools-based campaign providing measles and rubella combined vaccination in 1994-95 and it was estimated that 90.4% of the target population were vaccinated at that time.No information has been collected centrally on single vaccinations that may have been provided by general practitioners privately, using imported vaccines.Information is available by health board only in regard to MMR from 1995.Table 1 (Numbers of children receiving MMR by 24 months of age in Scotland from 1989 to 2000 and by health board from 1995 to 2000):198919901991199219931994Scotland191,027116,20680,07367,18568,86859,222 199519961997199819992000Scotland58,61255,63455,78154,81354,10053,620Health Board199519961997199819992000Argyll & Clyde4,9324,5814,7624,6524,4984,502Ayrshire & Arran4,2253,9023,6833,8513,8033,760Borders1,0301,0941,0841,0931,0261,030Dumfries & Galloway1,6181,5661,5541,5361,4831,515Fife4,0203,6773,7753,6153,5993,592Forth Valley3,1843,0403,1132,9273,0503,049Grampian6,1676,2086,0755,6885,5875,630Greater Glasgow10,5299,8189,8189,7929,4749,356Highland2,2762,1912,1912,1722,0642,131Lanarkshire6,6916,3836,4486,2876,2886,193Lothian8,7448,4148,4618,3878,4298,186Orkney242229231219215203Shetland293309298272256254Tayside4,3963,9384,0124,0304,0743,991Western Isles265284276292254228Table 2 (Numbers of children receiving measles vaccine from 1979 to 1988 in Scotland) 1979198019811982198319841985198619871988Scotland36,71839,56041,42943,61045,37055,93453,72753,75761,31277,725Table 3 (Numbers of girls receiving rubella vaccine through the schools programme...
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Date answered:
5 March 2001
S1W-11391
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of the Detox-5 treatment for heroin addiction and what guidance it provides to health boards regarding the prescription and funding of this treatment programme. The Executive is indeed aware of the Detox-5 treatment for heroin addiction which, I understand, is being used by drug problem services in Lothian...
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Date answered:
8 February 2001
S1W-12834
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11310 by Mr Sam Galbraith on 30 November 2000, whether any local authorities have to date made applications for funding for flood prevention schemes in future years and, if so, whether it will provide details of each proposed scheme and specify the amount of funding (a) sought and (b) awarded in each case. The non-housing programme capital allocation to local authorities provides resources for various capital work projects, including flood prevention schemes.In addition, subject to completing the statutory process under the Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961, supplementary allocation may be available for the construction of major flood prevention schemes (FPS).
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Date answered:
19 September 2000
S1W-09600
The relevant information is provided below.Meeting DateIssues discussed24 June 1999Presentation on Working Families Tax Credit and Disabled Persons Tax CreditInitial feedback from Childcare Plans Preliminary advice to the New Opportunities Fund on its out of school care programme.5 July 1999Advice to the New Opportunities Fund4 October 1999Quality Initiati...
