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It was about your funding concerns. A new responsibility is being placed on local authorities and they must construct a system to manage that new activity.
We have social workers in prison, and either housing officers visit people in prison or prisoners are allowed out to visit housing officers before they are released.
The Public Petitions Committee took evidence from the petitioner on 26 March. Some members of this committee are members of the Public Petitions Committee and I know that other members of this committee attended the meeting on 26 March for that item.
Councils are anxious to clear up the question whether new initiatives will be funded by genuinely new money, from within councils' existing funding, or by a combination of both.