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As I made clear in my parliamentary statement, Tony Cameron, as the chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service, is accountable to me and will be held accountable for the decision when he makes it.
We must ask whether we want a company that is accountable to the people of Scotland, which borrows money through the PSBR, or a mutual or private company that is ultimately accountable to shareholders or to the bankers who lent it money.
A large proportion of pubs are located in tenement properties. We must take into account the fact that, at the moment, 60 per cent of the people who use pubs are smokers.