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Perhaps members of the Justice 1 Committee or the Justice 2 Committee have visited Cornton Vale. I might have missed that visit, or we might have a visit scheduled.
Two halls are still to be updated, but in general, conditions were unrecognisable compared to those that we witnessed on our visit to Longriggend remand centre with the then convener of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee, Roseanna Cunningham.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 March 2001
Do you want our views on whether we should have a site visit? I planned to offer committee members the opportunity to go on a site visit based on the site visits that I will undertake.
I look forward to visiting Peterhead soon. It is clear from the information before us that Peterhead provides quite an exceptional service, and it has been recognised with the beacon award for part of its activities.
In 2002, which is the last year for which comparative figures are available, Scottish expenditure in business R and D was 0.77 per cent of GDP compared with the north American figure of 1.87 per cent.
However, there is a significant drop in April to September 1999. We are comparing a half-year with full years. As I said, there is also the effect of the moratorium.
Do you have a money figure for the 9 per cent extra that Scottish customers have to pay on average compared to the average figure for England and Wales?