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Prescription data collected centrally are not patient-specific.Care homes for children are now regulated by the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (the Care Commission). The commission regulates services by inspecting them against the legislative requirements and the relevant national care standards. The Regulation of Care (Requirements as to Care Services)(Scotland) Regulations 2002 require providers of some care services, including providers of care homes for children (independent and local authority), to keep a record of medicines for the use of service users which are kept on the premises from which the care service is provided.

So far as is known, no such studies are currently under way. An application for a study of this kind has, however, been made to the Scottish Prison Service, and is being considered for funding in competition with other research proposals in the normal way.

Prescription data collected centrally are not patient-specific.

This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise.

This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise.

Yes, the undernoted traffic figures have been extracted from the Scottish Roads Traffic Database (SRTDb). The figures are two-way flows (i.e. northbound and southbound combined) and are shown as average daily flows for each month over the 12-month period between November 2001 and October 2002.There are three locations where data is not available (n/a) for all months, due to mechanical/technical faults with the recording equipment.

Location	Nov 01	Dec 01	Jan 02	Feb 02	Mar 02	Apr 02	May 02	Jun 02	Jul 02	Aug 02	Sep 02	Oct 02
A9 Inshes (B9006) to Raigmore Interchange (A96)	19,030	n/a	18,331	19,281	n/a	21,721	23,008	23,613	24,735	26,138	23,031	21,025
A9 Tomatin	6,711	6,320	5,822	6,361	7,234	7,758	8,374	8,913	9,605	10,519	8,867	8,186
A9 Kerrow (A86) to Lynwilg (B9152)	6,737	6,240	4,986	6,687	7,537	7,726	8,419	8,987	9,631	10,577	8,726	8,197
A9 Calvine to Dalwhinnie(A889)	6,370	5,814	5,250	6,206	7,230	7,675	8,501	9,156	9,945	10,909	8,842	8,136
A9 S of B847 - at Shierglas	6,650	5,983	3,991	6,309	7,269	7,720	8,374	8,965	9,668	10,525	8,752	8,171
A9 Pitlochry Bypass - S of A924	6,777	6,052	5,534	6,457	7,472	8,067	8,697	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
A9 Birnam	10,052	6,979	8,178	9,839	11,523	12,407	13,379	13,930	15,173	16,479	13,973	12,770
A9 N of B8063 - at Luncarty	n/a	11,775	10,950	12,466	14,146	15,103	15,996	17,283	17,530	19,002	16,192	14,929

Yes, the Scottish Roads Traffic Database (SRTDb) has two Automatic Traffic Classifier Sites (ATCS) located on the A9 between Perth and Inverness at Birnam and Tomatin. The percentage of HGVs at these locations is 9.5% and 14.26% respectively.These figures are based on data collected for the 12-month period between December 2001 and November 2002.Information on national average HGV percentages for non-dual carriageway trunk roads is not currently published. However, a broad analysis of the information contained in the Scottish Roads Traffic Database suggests that the average figure is around 11% for Scottish Trunk Single Carriageway Roads.

The amendment to section 71(1)(j) of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill was not intended to introduce a comparative test of sustainable development. The Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development explained the purpose of the amendments to the Land Reform Bill, which altered references to sustainable development, to the Justice 2 Committee on 29 October. The relevant comments are recorded at columns 1960 to 1964 of the Official Report of the 37th meeting of the Justice 2 Committee. This is available on the Parliament's website at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/official_report/cttee/just2-02/j202-3702.htm.

It is my understanding that the terminology used in section 65(2)(d) is precisely what is required in order to achieve our policy intention.

"Contiguous to" has a more precise and more strictly limited meaning than "adjacent" which can be interpreted as "close to" without necessarily conveying the concept of physical contact with the croft land.