Item 4 is consideration of a response from the Scottish Prison Service to the Auditor General's section 22 report on the service and a letter that we sent to the service. The response is from Tony Cameron, the chief executive of the SPS, and has been circulated to members. I invite members to comment on the response. This is a continuing issue and members may feel that we have had enough exchanges of letters on it. I will take members' advice on the matter.
We have got as much as we hoped to get out of the SPS at this stage. However, we may want to flag up the issue in our legacy paper, because it will not go away in this financial year.
I agree. We have received a deluge of information on the matter, but any future committee will want to take an interest in outstanding issues such as compensation and the building of new prisons. I am sure that we will come back to those issues in the future.
The fact that no members wish to comment shows that they welcome the response that we have had, which provided the further information that we sought. Nevertheless, there will be other issues to consider, given that court settlements are pending. Naturally, the committee will want to keep an eye on those issues and we might include comments or ideas on them in our legacy paper at the end of the session.