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The Scottish Prison Service's response was that one new prison has no completion date until the contract is awarded "in due course", and that one new prison is now under the planning appeal process, which could take some considerable time.
I will be relatively brief, convener.Karen Gillon admitted that she did not understand the issue. She has until 26 March to annul the instrument, which gives the committee plenty time to hear directly from the industry and to learn about some of the issues.
The note from the Procedures Committee states:"Written evidence should be submitted by Tuesday, 26 June 2001."I am conscious of the fact that our clerks will be rather busy between now and the Friday prior to that.
For instance, yesterday, the young people at a local school that I visited raised the issue of curfews and expressed their feeling that it was an unfair approach to antisocial behaviour.