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We do not regard that guarantee to be a long-lived one. It is part of the democratic process that Governments come and go and draw up different spending priorities in all sorts of areas.
That is when democratic control should be exercised. We have a small budget. I can live more happily with scientific and advisory committees that have small budgets.
Disabled people are less likely to have formal qualifications and to be in full-time employment and they are more likely to live in households with a low income—that is, income of less than £6,000 per annum.
My point is that the problem may be not that people are unwilling to live up to their responsibilities, but that they do not know what their responsibilities are.
The conclusion is that if you want a prison in which inmates live in decent conditions, are treated uniformly with respect and are paid high wages, using a privately run prison like Kilmarnock might seem to be the answer.