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I echo some of David Stewart's comments: we as a Parliament need to think about the best way to deal with private bills such as the one about which we are speaking today.
I am not in a position to say whether the location of a prison facility would act against the principle of reducing reoffending. We want the best possible prison facilities for the community that assist in rehabilitation and lowering reoffending rates.
Therefore, we have increasingly seen a complementarity of the state, region and local efforts each doing the sorts of things that they are best at. On another issue entirely, I noticed that Bavaria has 22 offices in other countries.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 September 2010
Heart disease, and the treatment of heart attack, remains a clinical priority for NHS Scotland and we want people to have access to the best possible treatment at the earliest possible opportunity, including potentially life-saving defibrillators.
Given that Waterwatch was not consulted prior to the Sinclair recommendations being made, why do you consider that a transfer of Waterwatch's functions is in the best interests of the consumer? There are two factors at work here.
Elizabeth Smith asked whether the best framework is in place to deliver best practice in preserving Scotland's heritage—but what do we mean by Scotland's heritage?
Britain was one of the countries that were hardest hit by the financial crisis, but it now has the strongest recovery in the European Union and the best recovery in the G7. We have the best job creation rate in Europe; more jobs have been created in the UK than in the whole of the rest of the European Union combined....