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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to ring-fence funding for the Association of Visiting Committees for Scottish Penal Establishments in order to facilitate it carrying out its statutory duties.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Ministers fully reimburse the Consolidated Fund for any journeys taken in their Ministerial vehicles when visiting their constituencies or attending party political events.
People will have a concessionary card to travel, but the transport might not be available because it does not have to be in place until 2016 or 2017. The latest date for implementation—2020—seems quite far away, as is highlighted in the manifesto.
If we made that announcement now, we could probably secure all those contributions by the end of July at the latest. We could probably do that by the end of the week, knowing some of those organisations.We have gone as far as we can with discussion of the committee's specific remit.