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When will you be able to tell staff what the shape will be after 31 March? At the very outside, the date will be 31 March, but I suspect that things will evolve.
We can proceed by getting further written submissions, which will give us the most up-to-date information. There might not be much to report since the letters were written on 17 February.
Once the Home Office consultation is completed, we will be in a stronger position and better able to say yea or nay as to whether further action is required. Do we know the final date for the Home Office consultation?
We should confirm to the Standards Committee that a leak has taken place, so that they can get their records up to date, and we should leave it at that.
The section could be repealed and varied with retrospective effect; the new legislation could give effect to the same idea from the date on which the section is repealed.
My feeling is that it ought to be possible to manage long-term sentenced prisoners in Peterhead so as to come up with a release date that is sufficiently far in advance to allow prisoners to be transferred near to the area where they will eventually be released.
My authority has made cuts of about £5 million a year for the past seven years. We have to date made cuts that have cropped £45 million from a budget of about £200 million.