Scottish Government

News Releases:

Thursday 01/02/2007

NHS budget allocations [Health and Community Care]

Health Minister announces individual Boards' share of £10 billion budget for 2007-08.

Wednesday 31/01/2007

Farm income estimates [Statistics]

Aggregate and individual farm level incomes for 2006.

Housing income and expenditure [Statistics]

A National Statistics publication.

Scottish Snowdrop Festival [Tourism]

Tourism organisation VisitScotland to team up with gardens around the country to showcase the popular flower.

Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 2006 [Statistics]

A National Statistics publication.

Tuesday 30/01/2007

Alcohol statistics 'show scale of challenge' [Health and Community Care]

Ministers outlines action being taken to tackle harmful attitudes to drinking.

Business Enterprise Research and Development 2005 [Statistics]

A National Statistics publication.

Cash for voluntary groups [People and Society]

More than 70 organisations to share £1.3 million to invest in staff training.

Confidence in community justice grows [Law, Order and Public Safety]

Community sentences proving to be increasingly credible way of dealing with offending behaviour - Justice Minister.

Criminal Justice Social Work Statistics 2005-06 [Statistics]

Bulletin providing statistics on the number and type of community orders and social enquiry reports.

Exclusions from Schools 2005-06 [Statistics]

A National Statistics publication.

Funding for Scottish healthcare mission [Health and Community Care]

Countries in need of medical aid to benefit from expertise of a number of Scotland’s most experienced health professionals.

Microsoft Government Leaders Forum [Government]

Business volunteer corps to be recruited to help young Scots find jobs and training.

Minister comments on exclusion stats [Education and Training]

New figures show small increase in the number of exclusions from local authority schools.

Nursing target met one year early [Health and Community Care]

Figures show 15,735 registered nurses and midwives brought into NHS since 2002, well over target of 12,000.

Quality Meat Scotland [Agriculture]

Scotland's red meat promotion body to become wholly accountable to Ministers.

Monday 29/01/2007

Eco-driving campaign [Environment]

Celebrity commentator Murray Walker urges Central Belt motorists to adopt 'green' driving practices.

School building and refurbishment [Education and Training]

Scotland's largest school building programme is 'one of real achievements of devolution'.

Saturday 27/01/2007

Scotland: a Fair Trade nation [Government]

Perth conference to take first steps towards achieving Fair Trade status.

Friday 26/01/2007

FM pledges fresh drive for full employment [Government]

Scottish and UK Ministers at breakfast meeting and Q&A session on welfare reform at John Wheatley College.