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Written Question · S3W-29603 · Session 3

Whether it offers its staff the opportunity to donate blood at private or organised group sessions and whether such staff continue to be pa…

Answered Asked by Rhoda Grant Lab Lodged 3 Dec 2009

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it offers its staff the opportunity to donate blood at private or organised group sessions and whether such staff continue to be paid while taking time to donate blood.

The answer

Answered by John Swinney on 11 Dec 2009 · 8 days after it was lodged, on time

Scottish Government staff are afforded opportunities to donate blood during working hours by attending the mobile blood transfusion units visiting the Scottish Government buildings.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-29603 by reference.