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The questions referred to were answered by the Scottish Prison Service because Scottish Ministers’ functions for appointments to, and funding of, prison visiting committees are currently performed by the Scottish Prison Service.
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In May 2025, Members went on a fact-finding visit to the Cairngorms National Park in addition to visiting Seafield, Dorback and Abernethy estates and holding a community engagement event with stakeholders.
We are grateful to all those who gave their time to speak to the Committee.
Visit by a delegation of the Committee to the Wise Group and G4S, Glasgow, 29 May 2018Copyright: SPCB
We ensure that we provide support and training to new staff, to people who are drafting a lot of the time and to people who come back to drafting after having done other types of work.
It is possible that much of the fund will be delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government—a ministry that, according to the Treasury’s latest statement of funding policy, has no locus at all in Scotland.