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Victims and witnesses are having to travel 75 miles to Dumfries, often alone, just to give evidence. The latest figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service confirm that the average wait for a sheriff summary evidence-led trial is now increasing further.
I note that, as of 31 March 2023, North Lanarkshire Council had general fund reserves of £250 million, which is the latest available audited figure, but I think that that will have increased in the provisional outturn figures.
The proposed changes, much like the Rwanda legislation, which we spoke about earlier, are just the latest examples of the Conservatives punching down and punishing marginalised communities to make up for their own failings.
Estimates released last month indicate 89.9 per cent of employees aged 18 and over earned above the real living wage in Scotland last year. The latest employment rate in Scotland was 74.4 per cent for September to November 2023.
Police Scotland (Officer and Staff Numbers) To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the number of divisional officers working in each local division as detailed in the latest publication of Police Scotland’s officer and staff numbers.
For example, HMP Cornton Vale operates mother-and-child bonding visits seven days a week, morning and evening, and HMP Peterhead has late-night visiting and will soon introduce a new, extended family-and-child bonding visit session on a...
Moreover, I suggest that, when we write to those groups, we ask for the most up-to-date and latest information on the A77. It would be sensible to have that as a comparator.