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Direct representations have not been made to me, but we will publish the results of the research that I mentioned in, I believe, August this year—at the latest, they will be published in the autumn.
Change in Scotland can be achieved to give people new life and new hope but, reading this document, I fear terribly that that is not the direction in which we are going.
We take the matter seriously and we are making progress. Last week, I announced the new housebuilding figures for this year, which show a rise in the number of new starts from 6,400 to 7,100 this year and to 8,000 next year.
As Christine said, it is the bureau that will decide whether the Justice and Home Affairs Committee can visit prisons. It will not be the whole committee, but groups of members, who make those visits.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 December 2001
Even the most recent statistics from the World Health Organisation show that our record is extremely poor in comparison with that of other countries. The latest figures show that the death rate for males per 100,000 is in the region of 94.