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Like other members, I welcome the minister's statement with regard to children.As members including the minister and Robert Brown have said, proportionally Scotland has one of the largest prison populations in the world.
Indeed, I believe that I will be visiting a third-sector project in Keith Brown's constituency in the next few weeks, and I very much look forward to that.
I suspect that when the chips are down the big blether will turn into the big bluster and the SNP will blame everything on the parsimony of Brown and Darling, which will simply not do.
You commented earlier on the disparity of treatment between part-time and full-time students. It is interesting that the Browne review down south highlighted that.
I, too, will want to ensure that that is not the case. Robert Brown’s point about the amount of legislation that now exists in this area was entirely valid.