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I am director of the office of research and consultancy services at the University of Strathclyde. The office was formed in March 1984. Its work divides roughly into two elements.
I want to have on the record the fact that I fully intended to go on the visit to a Traveller site on 2 March but, due to a lack of communication within the Parliament, I was unable to do so.
Indeed, the Scottish Parliament information centre's research note of 2 March states that, shortly after his appointment, the Deputy Minister for Highlands and Islands and Gaelic said that secure status for Gaelic was the Executive's main priority.
Our management committee will have to consider what services to cut in the coming year. We are in March but we still don't know what our funding will be from April."
There is surplus capacity in the system for that category. Even in March this year, when the prison population reached a peak at more than 6,300, there was still spare capacity—I think of around 180 places—in the open prisons and in the lower-security, category C prisons.