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Therefore, I inform members that I have agreed that the motion to appoint a new minister will be taken tomorrow at 2.15 pm, which is before question time at 2.30 pm.
They should be called Finlands. It will be a new legal term in Scotland. From now on, a statutory instrument on which no points arise will be called a Finland or a Norway.
Although the inquiry will not be finished within that period, we will be able to make good use of his time until then.If there are no questions or comments, we will note that piece of news.
We have apologies from Margo MacDonald, Dennis Canavan, Sylvia Jackson, Ben Wallace, Cathy Jamieson and also from Richard Lochhead, one of our new members, who has double-booked and is at the Rural Affairs Committee meeting.
We have apologies from Margo MacDonald, Dennis Canavan, Sylvia Jackson, Ben Wallace, Cathy Jamieson and also from Richard Lochhead, one of our new members, who has double-booked and is at the Rural Affairs Committee meeting.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 November 2005
It makes more of resources available, giving immediate access to significant sums and delivering new services more quickly than would be possible with a publicly funded capital programme alone.
As part of our reform of the criminal justice system we aredetermined to reduce reoffending and invest to modernise the prison estate.This will reduce overcrowding and improve conditions in prisons.Our prison reforms havealready resulted in real changes:We have improved the basicconditions in which we expect offenders to tackle offending behaviour.The Scottish Prison Service(SPS) has moved some long-term prisoners out of Barlinnie to reduceovercrowding.Accommodation for male YoungOffenders has been consolidated in improved conditions at Polmont.For those who still have toslop out at Barlinnie and Polmont, we have provided more time and betterfacilities to do so.A new...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 January 2003
On average each year, for financial years 2000-01, 2001-02 and 2002-03 (estimate), the SABRIs have filed 10 new patents, there have been 70 new licences and two new spin-out companies.