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On the visit to Barlinnie prison that members of the Justice 1 Committee made, we met an offender who had spent three years in prison without having had an interview to decide his leaving date. There had been no preparation for his release into the community.
After 5 May—I presume that that will be the date—decisions on those matters will be made by 646 members at Westminster, of whom only 59 will represent Scotland.
Some states will exercise universal jurisdiction only if a criminal is within their territory—for example, when a war criminal arrives in that state on holiday and is arrested at an airport.
I agreed with a lot of what he said, but his party's track record on sustainable forestry is not terribly impressive. Throughout Scotland can be seen banks of distressed and unmanaged forests, which were introduced for tax reasons.
My task is to look at the ethical standards of the members of the body that deals with banking because the auditors were criticised by a Committee of Public Accounts report.
That would not need a lot of money—whether it came from Government, the lottery or a bank—but the money would be well used.We must get supporters involved.
The common agricultural policy funds are part of the annually managed expenditure and are not determined by the United Kingdom Government. They are simply passed through a bank account with the Bank of England; they are considerably larger than the structural funds that we are talking about today.
The common agricultural policy funds are part of the annually managed expenditure and are not determined by the United Kingdom Government. They are simply passed through a bank account with the Bank of England; they are considerably larger than the structural funds that we are talking about today.
We do not have information on the up-to-date position, but you are right that the consultant contract report that we produced earlier this year highlighted problems for the Western Isles in filling its vacancies and meeting the cost of implementing the contract.