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Our advice now is that there is really no practical effect that would be detrimental in any way to the instrument. Can I ask that paragraph 26 of our briefing paper, which sets out the Scottish Executive's explanation of the point that we raised, be produced in full in the record or in our report?
Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland Regulations 2002 (SSI 2002/69) The next item is consideration of SSI 2002/69, which was laid before the Parliament on 26 February 2002 and came into force on 22 March 2002.
To ask the Scottish Executive what ministerial visits have been arranged, or are being planned, to (a) Banff and Buchan and (b) north-east Scotland between now and 3 May 2007.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures are in place to ensure that both male and female prison officers are available to search prisoners at visiting times. I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond.
As I made clear in my response to S1W-33632, it is for individual ministerialprivate offices to ensure that constituency MSPs, Regional MSPs and MPs are notifiedwhen official visits take place. S2W-07519
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 November 2001
His response is as follows:SPS has no record of any prison visiting committee having made representations since 1997 on the treatment of sex offenders in prisons.
Items in Private I welcome committee members, visiting members, members of the press and members of the public to the ninth meeting in 2006 of the Environment and Rural Development Committee.
The second is a response from the minister about his visit to Craiginches prison. I suggest that in the first instance we send the response to Richard Lochhead for comment.