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The other area that has contributed to the change in work load, as Christine Grahame probably expects and guessed, is new work relating to the European convention on human rights.
We could return to you with an accurate figure. The latest study shows that there is very little reoffending while people are on bail; the study gives a figure of 45 per cent.
The latest information that we have is that Disclosure Scotland is now turning around within three working days applications that are straightforward and do not have to be referred to police forces or elsewhere.It is difficult to estimate the total number of new applications that might be required.
I turn to the question of how many judges should sit as supreme court judges and how many of them should be Scottish judges, which is covered in paragraphs 18 to 26 of the Executive's submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitutional Reform Bill.
In the past year, the Government has not published a single new technical note on efficiencies—it seems odd in the grand scheme of things that not a single new idea has emerged from a Government that is so keen on efficient government.