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The organisations that we have chosen to visit have all been chosen for practical reasons, such as the time available to us and the convenience of getting to them, with the possible exception of HMP Peterhead, which we could visit as time permits.
The COAST people, whom we met on our visit, feel that the proposed management arrangement could be an exemplar because the site is well used and there is an existing small fish farm and a mussel farm, so the bay is not pristine.
Representatives in each city that we visited said that their system enhanced the quality of life in their city and passengers were generally satisfied with the systems.
We often receive such requests from visitors, either through the external liaison unit, which deals with VIP-type visits, or through more general tourist visits.
I have an example from a different sector of how the situation often perhaps feels to the general public.I am on a committee that is considering licensing laws in Scotland. One of our visits was to the police late on a Saturday night in Glasgow to look at public order issues.
People go in and out of jail—some of them should perhaps not be in jail—and we do not sort them out.I would like to focus on drugs. Some of us visited Barlinnie yesterday, so that visit is fresh in our memory.
The concerns are because the full title of the UKCC, which will be replaced by the nursing and midwifery council, currently includes nurses, midwives and health visitors. "Health visiting" will be removed from the title.