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Why should we accept as applications telephone calls, personal visits and conversations? We appreciate the arguments for freedom of information requests to be in writing or in electronic format.
That would ensure that we do not revisit the problems that we had with temporary sheriffs—who have been shoring up the system—with the new office of part-time sheriff.I move amendment 7.
The capital figures over the three years from 1999 to 2002—you say that most of that cost is due to the Holyrood project and the new building—amount to what has been reported as the total cost of the Holyrood build.
Just now, prisoners stroll out of jail either half way or two thirds of the way through their total sentences. Under the First Minister's new legislation, all prisoners could stroll out of jail half way through their total sentences.
Obviously, however, the provision will have no effect until the bill is brought into force and the new body comes into being. Therefore, as things stand, the commissioner could not take part in the process of appointing the SPSA's first convener and board members.
It shows that in the last quarter of last year, of the 7,000 new addicts referred for treatment, nearly 1,000 waited more than six months just to be assessed for treatment, and 400 waited longer than a year.
He said:"The picture that is presented is a lot of new money going in, some targets being hit, quite a few targets being missed, and quite a few targets which we do not know if they have been hit or not because nobody bothered to check."