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As I said recently, the changes that are taking place at St John's hospital and elsewhere are changes that, in many cases—in relation both to services at St John's and to the quality of care provided in the specialist centres—save lives.
However, such services are not open to people who have been acquitted because they are meant to be treated as innocent. A person's mental state can in many cases be affected by having served maybe 15 to 20 years in prison, yet such people come out of prison with virtually no support.
We need to ensure that our health service performs as effectively as possible, with the best possible technology and in the best locations. As many services as possible must be delivered locally, too.
The petitioner would not gain from that in the end. Many people in Scotland might be sympathetic to Mr Minogue's petition, but the fact is that the Justice 2 Committee has considered the matter.
If he cares to read the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs's report—which went to the Home Office and produced the result that has been produced—he will find that there are a great many questions on which the council says much more research is needed.
I think that it would be the Subordinate Legislation Committee's concern rather than ours; our job is to consider the policy content of regulations and to ensure that they meet their stated intention. Many of the concerns about the laying hens regulations were to do with whether they were satisfactorily drafted and it was the Subordinate Legislation Committ...
We must be aware of exactly what is happening in the predatory bird population. Many investigations that have taken place do not provide me with the answers that I think I need.