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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.
If we are trying to build a new Scotland, the attitude that there should be no compensation for some because we did not get it is not an attitude on which we can base a new democracy or a new nation.This has been a bad afternoon for the Parliament.
I think that John Lincoln said that that might be related to new towns, for example. However, only one of those five local authorities has a new town in its area and a number of local authorities that are not in that category do cover new towns.
A short-life group worked on the matter, and new guidance has recently been issued.Before I deal with the issue of research, I will touch briefly on other Executive measures.
The other part is that we will discuss and analyse the latest results. We consulted local authorities so that we could get the maximum amount of information for today's meeting.
The letter explains the fact that the new body would not have charitable status under the bill as drafted, but it is the same body that is at issue again, and that concerns me.