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However, I assure the committee that the Scottish Prison Service used its best endeavours to compare bids with the public sector comparator, based on the best information that it had.
If we do not look at what other people are doing, we clearly do not know how to benchmark that, so I suggest that we build in a reference to some international comparators and benchmarking as part of the research.
In my view, it is not realistic to compare an offender who has been locked in the prison system and taken away from their community with an offender who is undertaking a community sentence and is starting from a different position.