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However, we should ask why, two weeks ago, it cost five times as much to buy a standard fare train ticket from London to Edinburgh than it would have cost to buy an air ticket.
We want MSPs to have the opportunity to keep their knowledge up to date and to develop new expertise in what could be, for many of you, a long and honourable career.
The only cases of which I am aware are those where there is not clarity. I do not agree with paragraph 26 of the draft report. We did not hear evidence on the issue.
The prison needs proper visit facilities, but all the individuals to whom we spoke felt that, in many other ways, they have secure, quality visits—those who receive visits.
I would like the minister to reflect on the points that he raised about his American visit and to tell us what new ideas on closing that gap will be added to the Government strategy.
Scottish ParliamentPublic Petitions CommitteeTuesday 7 November 2000(Afternoon) The Convener opened the meeting at 14:04 Welcome to the 16th meeting this year of the Public Petitions Committee.