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I can now tell members that the research referred to was undertaken for an individual MSP. The general position is that SPICe requires that a member's permission be granted before the research can be released to anyone else.
Obviously, people can contact individual MSPs who can lodge questions for them, but there is more chance of generating answers in the time scales that are required if questions are asked via the committee.
This debate has been an excellent chance for the Executive to bring MSPs up to date with our wide-ranging proposals, but it has also been a valuable and informative opportunity to listen to the concerns and suggestions of MSPs from all parties.
According to the Sentencing Commission—as we have already heard—those failures are "endemic"I suspect that many MSPs' constituents have come to them to voice the very concerns that are the human face of what the statistics mean.