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The Scottish Drug Enforcement Forum which, under the chairmanship of the Deputy Minister for Justice, oversees the work of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (SDEA), formally endorsed the SDEA's objectives, key activities, performance indicators and targets for 2001-02 at its meeting on 4 June. Copies of the agreed targets have been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.

The Boards of Management of FE colleges are each legally responsible for matters relating to the contracts of employment of staff within their college, including pay and conditions. This offers boards the flexibility, as they see fit, to reflect local conditions and circumstances, to secure best value for money and efficiencies and to strengthen their college's future.I place great emphasis on the potential benefits to colleges from joint ventures and collaboration, including, where boards see this as appropriate, in the area of staff pay and conditions.

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Judicial training in Scotland is a matter for the independent Judicial Studies Committee. The committee are aware of the terms of the Executive's policy and they are already planning to include victims' issues in a programme of refresher courses for sheriffs which will begin in the New Year.

There are no breastfeeding facilities provided in the interim accommodation for members of the public and visitors. They do have access to baby changing facilities in the Committee Chambers, PHQ and the Assembly Hall.

Staff returning to work are supported through our policy of flexible working hours. As far as is practicable, line managers are encouraged to adapt the pattern of working hours to suit the needs of the nursing mother. Staff also have access to a room in 375 High Street for the purpose of breastfeeding or expressing milk. There are also baby changing facilities in Committee Chambers, PHQ and the Assembly Hall.

The Scottish Executive provides dedicated accommodation for women wanting to breastfeed or to express milk in four offices in Edinburgh and two offices in Glasgow. The accommodation provided includes a nursing chair, fridge for storing milk and baby changing facilities.Facilities will be extended as office renovation is undertaken. Local arrangements are made to meet individual circumstances where no facility exists at present.

Section 3 of the Housing Bill will give homeless or potentially homeless people not in priority need an enhanced package which ensures them advice and assistance and access to temporary accommodation while this advice and assistance is given. Take-up of the new enhanced package will depend on the circumstances of individual households and the extent to which its availability encourages those who have not previously made applications to local authorities under the homelessness legislation now to do so.

This will be a matter for local assessment as part of the development of homelessness strategies.

The provision of appropriate temporary accommodation is a matter for local authorities. Assessing the need for such accommodation will form part of the development of local authority homelessness strategies. The type of temporary accommodation provided will depend on the assessment of need, including consideration of what is already available.