To ask the Scottish Executive, given (a) the statement by the Minister for Justice on 22 April 2006 at the launch of the Mulhearn Action Plan for the Scottish Fingerprint Service that, in order to restore public confidence in the Scottish Criminal Record Office (SCRO), “I am determined to ensure that the Scottish Fingerprint Service is recognised - at home and abroad - as truly world class”, (b) that the Scottish Ministers have concluded that the identification by SCRO experts of the Shirley McKie print is wrong and that the Mulhearn report confirmed this conclusion, (c) the statements made by the Director and the Deputy Director of SCRO to the Justice 1 Committee on 26 April 2006 that a majority of experts at SCRO disagreed with the Scottish Ministers who said the print was wrong (Official Report, Justice 1 Committee, c. 2878) and (d) that these experts had confirmed these beliefs in a letter, dated 14 November 2005, to Lord Cullen of Whitekirk, whether it would agree that the experts’ behaviour (i) undermines the Minister’s goal of a “truly world class” fingerprint service, (ii) reduces public faith in that service and (iii) constitutes a danger to any persons appearing before Scottish courts on the basis of fingerprint evidence, whether it will revoke with immediate effect the expert status conferred on those SCRO experts under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland...