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Amendments 53 and 54 perform the same function for transferred life prisoners with a provisional release date or a recommended provisional release date.
My colleague, Mr MacAskill, and I have not had a single opportunity since the summer recess to fulfil our duties to hold the Minister for Justice to account.
I know who I believe.Oddly enough, I was in Ireland during the recess and, purely in the interests of research, I had occasion to visit a few pubs, which were brilliant.
However, I like to think that a new Presiding Officer would act quickly to change some of those parliamentary procedures immediately after summer recess. If he or she does not, we will get locked into many practices that will in time become set in stone.
That sort of thing would help; there is no need to specify a date. That picks up on Susan Deacon's point about getting greater advance knowledge of topics.
The electoral registers are always shockingly out of date. People underestimate the fact that, particularly in poorer areas with a high turnover of population, electoral registers can be 10 or 20 years out of date.