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That would mean that offenders spend more time in prison being punished but, de facto, they would also spend more time being rehabilitated before the post-prison mentoring programme that we advocate.
We are talking about uploading the information—I imagine that the minutes have already been written. We are just trying to make the site usable for people—it has to be accessible to everybody.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent estimate is of the annual cost to the NHS of treating long-term conditions, also expressed as a percentage of NHS annual expenditure.
It has taken over a year to publish the consultation document, so we are unlikely to see a draft bill until much later in this parliamentary session.To his credit, the cabinet secretary acknowledged in 2010 that support for victims was an issue.
Last year, it produced the first upturn in visitor numbers in five years, in terms of both domestic United Kingdom and overseas visitors.That success story is vital to Scotland.
Could we, in considering the potential for dedicating a new site for such activity or using existing firms, compete with other high-cost centres such as Finland and Norway?