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These things are done to reflect the priorities of the Government of the day and the things that it thinks are important and necessary in the circumstances.
In the first few months we all received a proliferation of well-produced, expensive brochures and so on—two rainforests a day were being destroyed. That is lobbying.
We are just a little disappointed that Mr Ferguson, who was involved in the original consultation—indeed, he had a meeting just a week or 10 days ago with officials—did not raise those concerns with us at the time.
I think that Stirling Council told us that it put 1,000 man days into the best-value audit, so it is a rigorous exercise.A phrase was used this morning that I used to use in speaking to my students.
I am keen to put a strong case to the Minister for Parliamentary Business that we be given a short debating slot on an appropriate day to get the changes through. Would that be the only standing orders change?
We used victim surveys and prison numbers, but the prison numbers were not always that clear, because they tended to be just the average number of prisoners on a particular day. We found that it was very difficult to get entry figures.