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We are about to move into private session so, unfortunately, I must ask the public in the gallery—after their short visit to the best committee in the Parliament—to leave.
In particular, I am informed to some extent by my visit last year, in relation to the prison estates review, to a French prison at Bapaume, where the strong assertion was that the majority of the prisoners had a sexual aspect to their offences.
The scheme succeeds because of the dedication of everyone involved and because staff and offenders recognise that support to deal with their addiction problem and enforcement in terms of drug offences go hand in hand.Last week I visited Cornton Vale to open a new house block and visit a new garden, which members might have seen when it was featured recently on the television programme "The Beechgrove Garden".
The capital cost, at 1995 prices, included £146 million for infrastructure, £36.4 million for 26new trams and £1.3 million for land purchase, coming to a total of £183 million.
I can cite two areas in which local government will have a massively expanded role. Too often, we refer to new burdens, but new burdens can also be described as an expanded role.
I was driving at whether the post would be a new function requiring new personnel and new costs or whether similar work is being done just now, although not as comprehensively.
Committees have sometimes consulted at stage 2, but the rule should be that they must consult if significant new proposals are made or if, even though the proposal is not new, the mechanism for achieving it is new.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and what percentage of, its advertising budget has been spent in each of the latest three years on (a) online, (b) television and radio and (c) newspaper advertising.