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Do you still intend to publish reports? That is a live issue for us. There are two reports that have been through the clearance process and are due to be published in the near future.
In total, that accounts for about 20 live cases currently. Are the different ways that you have handled the casework part of refreshing the case system?
Through that regular contact, the volunteers have a duty to observe prison life, noting how prisoners are treated and what their living conditions are like. Moreover, monitors investigate any issues that prisoners raise with them.
The new national performance framework includes the human rights outcome that “We respect, protect and fulfil human rights and live free from discrimination”. How is the Government measuring that outcome?
Of those who provided a substantive response and a Scottish postcode, nearly two thirds or 4,151 live in one of 13 local authority areas identified as potentially having significant shale oil and gas reserves or coal-bed methane.
The number of neonatal deaths has reduced by 40 per cent since 2007, which means that, in 2015, 76 more babies’ lives were saved by the high-quality care that was provided by staff in neonatal units across Scotland.
That is important for the tourism economy, but when more than half the housing stock is owned by people who do not live there, that is a challenge for communities to absorb.
I am happy to give way to John Mason. The living wage is important, but does the member accept that, although a living wage is good, a minimum wage is better, because it affects the private sector as well?
If you look at the further education sector, you can see that the difference between a lecturer’s salary at UHI and at James Watt College is £5,000 a year. The cost of living is no less in the UHI area, but UHI cannot offer lecturers more money.