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The committee plans to take further evidence on its inquiry in the coming weeks and will then produce a report based on what it has heard, with recommendations for the Scottish Government.
Fundamentally, if you are going to produce good policy and good legislation, you have to ask the hard questions that people do not want asked but are obliged to answer.
The other thing that is not new—you have already alluded to it—is that Audit Scotland produced a section 22 report on the Scottish Prison Service back in September 2019.
It also says: “There may also be a cost to the Scottish Ministers of producing guidance; this is expected to be minimal and met from existing budgets”.
I think that you said that, as the accountable officer, you accept all the recommendations in the report that was produced by Audit Scotland and the Accounts Commission.
The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 provided for local place plans, whereby local communities have the ability to produce their own plans for their areas.