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To ask the Scottish Executive whether the appropriate Scottish Minister will visit the proposed site for the secure unit at Stobhill hospital in order to discuss with the local community their concerns regarding the unit.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the appropriate Scottish Minister will visit the proposed site for the secure unit at Stobhill hospital in order to discuss with the local community their concerns regarding the unit.
How can we tackle poverty when we are reducing expenditure in poor areas? Secondly, when we compare the expenditure that is planned—between £30 million and £40 million a year—and compare that with the scale of the problem, it is peanuts.
We asked the Executive how it intends to use the power conferred in new section 27Q of the 1982 act, to provide exceptions to certain offences under the 1982 act and why it is necessary for the power to be cast as wide as it is.
I have two points to make, the first of which is on the further education overview. In recent weeks, I have visited two of the further education colleges in my region.
There are many positive examples of integration. I visited a school in Cranhill where the teaching staff are superb at implementing some of the work that is being developed.
You can see that there are consistent factors if you start to compare within family groups and compare the unclassified, C-class and B-class roads across areas with the same characteristics.
Iain Gray referred to the power of a constable, which is an exception. On the other hand, we have exceptions to the exception, for example where a constable is dealing on behalf of a UK authority, such as the Financial Services Authority.