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It is a place where 650,000 households are experiencing fuel poverty at the same time as the six big energy companies are making £15 billion in profit—and the situation is getting worse through Scottish Government inaction.
For those bodies—such as Police Scotland, in the case of the Sheku Bayoh inquiry—there is the normal public sector duty to get best value, through getting the most competitive rates that they can find for the legal costs they incur.
We are talking about people’s entitlements; fundamentally, our role is to check and make sure that people get what they are entitled to. We have done a lot of work in getting staff into that space.
It would be a useful for us to know that, because we know that Glasgow and Dundee have more issues and have been impacted more. It would be useful if we could get that information. I know that you probably will not have it today, but if we could get it, that would be helpful.
It would be a useful for us to know that, because we know that Glasgow and Dundee have more issues and have been impacted more. It would be useful if we could get that information. I know that you probably will not have it today, but if we could get it, that would be helpful.
Indeed, some UK Government ministers are on record as saying that they want to get out of the ECHR, which is abhorrent, given that it is the international baseline.