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I do not know what position I am in today. If there is significant new evidence—not just new information, but significant new evidence—I want to hear both sides of the story.
However, at the moment it is difficult to quantify what each brigade in Scotland would require to deliver effectively the new statutory duty around community fire safety.
That is natural in a review when resources are tight. If ministers want to undertake new initiatives, but a huge amount of new money is not available, they must look to create efficiency savings to fund those new initiatives.It is clear that ministers share the committee's wis...
I cannot give you hard numbers but, to my mind, the recidivism rate is much lower than it was in the past, so in that respect the number of new sex offences has been reduced. With any crime, there will always be new offences carried out by the new and upcoming generation, in t...
The very same people who are currently employed in highly skilled refitting, engineering and technical jobs could be just as well employed on new ferries, new trains, new buses, magnetic resonance imaging or kidney machines and so on.
As well as dealing with depreciation and the need to maintain the capital value of existing and new assets, one can invest in new assets in such a manner as to reduce subsequent revenue charges.
Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2006 (SSI 2006/94) The rules provide no specific power to amend or revoke any direction that is issued under the rules, although such a direction could be amended or replaced by the making of a new direction. Do we want to raise that point formally with the Executive or should we suggest informally ...