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We must first give the Executive the opportunity to respond. The picture is very gloomy, right enough. It is indeed, particularly when you remember that mental health is one of the three priorities for the NHS in Scotland.
There has been due process, both through the reports from Audit Scotland and, subsequently, in the public inquiry and the recommendations from the Accounts Commission.The member is right to say that we have written in strong terms to the council.
First, I am not going to get into a bidding war in the chamber about what money goes to what prisons across Scotland or, indeed, across the north-east of Scotland.
Does the minister accept that we have had study after study on both projects and that it is entirely unacceptable that passengers to Scotland's largest city cannot travel there—or to other parts of Scotland—by rail from the airport?
What additional resources are being diverted from within the £20 billion budget to sustain and improve Scotland's largest industry during its hour of need?
Rule 17 contains references to a number of provisions of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993. It also refers to the Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Act 2001 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, but there are no footnotes in the instrument to ex...