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HMP Barlinnie’s building design also inhibits open association and in order to ensure the safety of all those in our care, out of cell activity therefore requires more structured delivery than at other prisons.
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Date answered:
8 February 2018
The Scottish Government’s dedicated Resilience operation actively monitors all weather and flood alerts and can be activated at any time, any day of the year to support the national response to an emergency.
I will bring in Meg Thomas in a wee second, but first I want to put something on record—I hope that I will get nodding heads and will not have to go to three different people to get the same answer.
That involves policies including the fairer Scotland action plan, and it includes ensuring that people live in good housing, get the right education, have places to walk and get fresh air, and stuff like that.
We are very much focussed on improving the service and, as Rosemary Agnew has said, making sure that people get the service that they should be getting.