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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.
I can confirm that the clerks have received a letter agreeing that you should visit Moray Council. I hope that that visit can be arranged as quickly as possible and that you will be able to present your report to the committee shortly afterwards.
Some councillors have told us, "My party's view is that we should do X; however, I—and my party group—think that we should Y, or certainly not do X". That seems to be relatively widely accepted.
We are passionately committed to increasing the number of such homes for people in the Highlands. When I visited Inverness recently, I met a young nurse, Janet MacMillan, who was one of the first people to benefit from the homestake project.
John Scott is tempting me with a little mention of Arran—he is trying to get me onside. I regret not having been able to visit the farmers market here in the Parliament last night, because of other business.
That will not take long.I draw the First Minister's attention to the fact that, today, Tony Blair is making one of his rare visits to Scotland—indeed, they are almost as rare as the First Minister's visits to hospitals.