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It is very welcome that the Public Inquiry has appointed a Family Liaison Officer who will play an important role in ensuring full engagement and communication with families as the Inquiry progresses.
We have a number of courses of action to rise to that, not least the rapid action drug alerts and response—RADAR—system, which picks up and disseminates information on the new threats that we are facing.
We are now at the stage where the increase in our prison population—not all of which has been predictable when it comes to the rapid rate of rise that we have had at certain intervals over the past two years, which the Scottish Prison Service chief executive spoke to earlier this week—leaves us no alternative, in the here and now, to emergency release.
That is why the work that we are doing across portfolios in Government on, for example, the whole family wellbeing fund is so important. Katy Clark will know about our rapid cancer diagnostic services—we have just announced the roll-out of a further two.
That is not a viable answer to either the energy cost crisis or the climate crisis—the answer to both of those is rapid investment in and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency.