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(S2O-04827)Cathy Jamieson: I met with representatives of the Association of Visiting Committees on 6 December last year and advised them of my intention to hold a review of the role of Prison Visiting Committees.
Margaret Jamieson also talked about the economy, efficiency and effectiveness—or three Es—test and the fact that the corporate body is not transparent.
As I said, the mentoring project now has 26 mentors. Had we the resources and the structure, we could easily double that number, but we are constrained by the present funding arrangement.
Of these visits, 72 were made under the Members Support Allowance within the UK or to Brussels/Strasbourg, 46 under the auspices of External Liaison Unit and 42 as committee visits.
I have met many tenanted farmers who told me that, although their landlord had visited the estate—some landlords might not have visited their estates at all—they had never actually visited the tenanted farms on the estate.
I do not accept Christine Grahame's comment about the brand new schools that I have visited. I have visited some of them, but over the past two or three weeks I have also visited some of our old schools and marvelled at the quality of education that is provided in some of them...