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The project improves Waverley station for passengers, including the elderly and the disabled. The project was on site in January and will be completed by December 2007, on time and within a budget of £150 million.
Our submission is that south-east Asia should under no circumstances be ignored. That point was made before 26 December 2004, when the tsunami hit, and I hope that the tsunami has reinforced the point that south Asia is one of the poorest parts of the world, so we cannot ignore what happens there.
In order to update those figures, we examined the figures for this financial year and found that, from 1 April to yesterday, there had been 26 reported assaults on Kilmarnock prisoners, in comparison with 31 reported assaults on Barlinnie prisoners.
I think that we have worked well as a committee. I also thank the clerks, the official report and members of the Scottish Parliament information centre, who keep us informed and up to date on all that we need to know for our committee work.
It calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to amend the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002 to bring all aspects of local authority administration under the remit of the public services ombudsman, without exception or exemption, and for the ethics and professionalism of local authority officials to be included in the remit of...
In her response, which has been circulated to members, the petitioner says:"If we can continue to engage with the various departments and their officials within the executive as we have thus far, then we believe that we will achieve the aims of our petition."
Also, the Parliament had a good debate on Scotland's contribution to international developments just a couple of days before the official opening ceremony. The issue is also relevant in view of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association delegation that will go to Africa in February, so I would be grateful to see further details.
I recognise the role that those organisations have to play. That is why our officials are already in discussions with them about the loss of their grant, and to consider what areas we would have an interest in providing additional funding to sustain and in what areas we could offer other kinds of support in the forthcoming year.