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We came to the Scottish Parliament with the petition because we thought that it would be the best organisation to put pressure on the Scotland Office to have the power in question transferred down to the local authority.
Mr Dick is to be congratulated on spending his time in Stornoway so intellectually. Absolutely. He obviously has the best interests of the Parliament at heart—that is to be encouraged these days.
However, we are at a threshold and need to study the issue, take best practice from other parts of the world—I was interested to hear about the Virginia example—and work out the best way forward in rural areas.
However, I assure the committee that the Scottish Prison Service used its best endeavours to compare bids with the public sector comparator, based on the best information that it had.