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Dividing the budget by the number of prisoners takes no account of prisoners who have extremely complex needs and who require lots of healthcare input.
There is a tendency among some white groups to look on medicine, law, accountancy and that kind of thing as better, and engineering as less good—my father was an engineer.
However, looking behind the numbers throws up a whole set of considerations that we would then need to take into account—not least of those considerations is whether we are legally able to do some of the things that you might want to do.
It is interesting that, under the bill, if the police make a request and a licensing board decides, “No, that is not for us,” it is accountable to the police for why that is the case.
It has been suggested that performance management systems should be looked at. If managers could be held to account for looking at and ensuring that their staff’s development needs were met, they would take that a lot more seriously.
In relation to your comment about the GDP per capita figures, it might be the case that they are not the same if relative household incomes are taken into account. It is necessary to net out the mineral resources wealth.