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The community council had identified a site on council property that lay derelict, and it approached the council to see whether it would be suitable for turning into allotments.
There have been quite a few trials down south to consider how to hold the basic command unit to account. Maybe, in future, that is where accountability needs to reside, rather than at the level of the force as a whole.
It has grown rapidly. In 2004-05, it accounted for only a small percentage of all international spending—less than 1 per cent—but, by 2009-10, it accounted for around a fifth.
Table 9 splits this by gender of applicant.The SPS Annual Report and Accounts contains a list of KPIs which they report on, with comparisons to previous years, including:
Deaths in custody
Total hours of purposeful activity
Average hours of purposeful activity per week per convicted individual
Reduced substance use (there are no figures attached to this).
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
Mr Lochhead confirmed that the Scottish Government's preferred non-legislative route is “to enhance the national performance framework and how that is scrutinised and accountability is built in”.6Scottish Parliament. (2025, December 19).
Committee reports
Date published:
12 December 2025
The difficulty with grant funding is that it is a fixed amount, which appeals to the accountants of both the Scottish Government and the Scottish Legal Aid Board.