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That programme includes providing new prison house blocks and the first of the new prisons and meeting the costs of the package of measures that was announced on 12 May in response to Lord Bonomy's judgment.
Your evidence has been extremely useful.I suspend the meeting briefly so that witnesses may swap over. Meeting suspended. On resuming— Our third set of witnesses has not yet arrived, so we will deal with the next two items on our agenda.
The hue and cry in the royal burgh of Dingwall is something to be heard. The issue is massive. It may be across the constituency boundary from me but, my gosh, people feel awfully strongly about it.
We see that there is a need to balance the interests and views of communities with housing and other developments that may be required. There is a trick and a challenge in this.
The Executive is concerned, but central funding per se may not be the sole answer.Personally, I am in no doubt that the SSPCA will overcome its current problems and will prosper in the future.
The incredible thing about funding is that those who are looking to do something else with their lives and who may have a ridiculously reasonable salary, find that they gain such benefit that they do not experience the corporate drop that would be associated with charitable giving.