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That is right in many cases, but it must be matched by action to tackle the other causal factors that have produced highly antisocial attitudes, addiction, anger and frustration in offenders.
The budget failed to mention the need to tackle alcohol misuse and overconsumption and failed to incentivise producers to develop and market low-alcohol alternatives.
In producing that report, it will hold a series of workshops—some of them in Scotland—to explore in more detail the many clinical, ethical and other issues that are involved.
In 2005, Jeremy Purvis again bemoaned the fact that the SNP, in opposition, had not produced an alternative budget, which is a point that he made again the following year.
That is why I ask the Scottish Government to find out why primary livestock producers on the continent, in countries such as France and Germany, receive so much more for their product than the equivalent primary producers here in Scotland receive.
I understand that the Presiding Officer will mediate later today, when the draw takes place for the semi-final of the CIS cup. I hope that he will produce a solution that is acceptable not just to half the Cabinet but to me.
It is difficult to do that without talking about council compromise agreements, and it is difficult to talk about them without talking about the English case of Allen v GMB. Would you like to respond to the description of that case in Mark Irvine's written submission?