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There is a danger that evidence that we took early on, on tourist boards and so on, is becoming out of date. I thoroughly support what you are saying, convener, about trying to draw things to an early conclusion.
The SNP believes that import controls have to be tackled properly, with the view that animal diseases do not respect boundaries. I am afraid that the evidence to date suggests that insufficient is being done to address the problem.
First, Lloyd Quinan compared European countries with our figures, but the figures are out of date. He was not comparing like with like, because the figures do not factor in the changes brought in by this Labour Government.
We cannot give optimum care to individuals unless the full patient record is available and up to date in every care setting. Will the minister give way?
That question gets to the heart of the tensions that arise from time to time between the detail that one seeks to specify in the bill and the latitude that one allows the courts and others to determine matters at a later date. The general route that we have taken is that we do not want to seek to define too precisely such matters in the bill.
My feeling is that it ought to be possible to manage long-term sentenced prisoners in Peterhead so as to come up with a release date that is sufficiently far in advance to allow prisoners to be transferred near to the area where they will eventually be released.