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For those of you who are staying over, I remind you that an evening reception is being hosted by the Scottish Executive in Edinburgh Castle this evening.
For those of you who are staying over, I remind you that an evening reception is being hosted by the Scottish Executive in Edinburgh Castle this evening.
I will be pleased to consider the matter and speak to VisitScotland, which is always receptive to such comments. If changes or clarifications can be made, I am sure that VisitScotland will be happy to make them.
If that happens, there should be public funding to back it up.Four and a half years into devolution, we are still puzzled about why the code of best practice will not arrive until December 2004.
Such problems can create serious long-term exclusion with a lifetime of costs for both the individual and society.I am not convinced that a code of guidance would take care of the matter.
What time scale is envisaged for the consultation process prior to the publication of the code of practice? I will have to ask one of my officials about that.
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Of all custodial sentences passed by the courts, 82 per cent are short sentences, so they account for a lot of sentences. Of the receptions into prison in any year, 60 per cent are for people serving sentences of six months or less.
Reducing the number of very short-term prisoners would have an impact on receptions. It would have a smaller impact on the daily average number of prisoners.