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It is true that the lead time for a new prison is normally four to six years and that there have been planning permission problems for the potential new site at Low Moss.
New Businesses (Support) To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give assistance to new businesses established through the Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise networks, for example by abolishing business rates for the first 12 months of their existence.
As we have made clear this week, the target date for ending slopping out in Scotland's prisons will follow the creation of those new prisons, which are fundamental to establishing the new practice.
Such training programmes are, however, quite new in the world as a whole. They have not existed in most common-law jurisdictions—including Scotland—for very long, but we have started them, we will continue to do so and we are getting better at them.