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Not Guilty: The Rights and Status of the Children of Prisoners in Scotland by the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland, whether it plans to review prison rules with the Scottish Prison Service to raise the basic minimum entitlement to visits and to ensure that visits are regarded as a right of the child, not a privilege of the parent, and that quality “bonding” visits for children are available in all prisons.
In the register of members' interests, which will be made public on 6 July, is recorded my visit to Taiwan for the purposes of observing and studying its economy.
Pillar 2 Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP): Increased Agri-Environment-Climate budget and a maintained Forestry budget Despite Scotland’s poor Pillar 2 allocation, the agri-environment-climate budget has been increased by over £10 million per year compared to the 2007-13 SRDP and the forestry budget has been maintained.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 April 2010
The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 established a right of responsible access to land and inland water throughout Scotland with certain limited exceptions. Scottish Natural Heritage is aware of no instances where public access is a cause for concern on Areas of Special Protection.
The Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007 enables the Scottish ministers to prohibit the manufacture, sale, hire, etc of swords, and to make exceptions for legitimate religious, cultural and sporting purposes.
That is why we have funded 600 modern apprenticeships in food and drink over the past year, compared with only 15 the year before.Those are positive and specific outcomes, but we can support the industry in many other ways.
That would help with some of the issues that were raised earlier about individuals finding themselves in an acute setting, which is obviously more expensive compared with being dealt with through the primary care sector.
In education, the exclusion rate in the 10 per cent most deprived areas of Scotland is 91 per 1,000 pupils, compared with 12 per 1,000 pupils in other areas of Scotland.As a Glasgow MSP, I recognise those statistics.
It is worth keeping in mind that the fire service now undertakes a significant level of community safety work, such as visiting properties to install smoke detectors.