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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.
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."
As they are not compatible, we need—at the very least—information about how the new regulation can be introduced. We should perhaps ask the Executive for clarification.
We have made it clear that we are prepared and want to produce a new guide for parents that stresses what the respective roles of local authorities and ministers are.
Today the report tells us that it is a starting point. After 14 months of review, what new policy will be announced today and how much in the way of new resources will be provided for the university sector in Scotland?
The purpose of each amendment is to ensure that those acts take account of the existence of the new types of tenancy that the 2003 act created, namely limited duration tenancies and short limited duration tenancies—LDTs and SLDTs.