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As I said earlier, 1,590 rapes were recorded across Scotland last year, and the best assessment from independent survey data is that that is 20 per cent of the crimes that have happened.
Police officers—front-line officers—are saying that.We accept that we do not live in a perfect world and we are trying to do our best. We are doing an awful lot better than our colleagues down south are doing.
On the whole, I would say that some of the figures that Scotland’s Colleges brought to the Education and Culture Committee were not particularly great at the best of times.We have to ask the Labour Party what it would do differently.
Is there anything to prevent the Parliament from deciding what it believes to be best? Yes, if you were to decide that there should be no mailshots and no broadcasting.