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I think that Pauline McNeill will find that Glasgow is getting as much help as it is possible to give it in the circumstances, and we hope that that will result in increased recycling levels in that council area.
When we are at sea—lost at sea or floundering—we get our bearings by looking along the horizontal level to a spot on the horizon and looking vertically to somewhere up in the sky.
He would like them to have some rights to be heard. I have no idea how on earth we get the balance right; I think that we just have to talk to the Government and ask it to show us a way through.
The groups of which I have been a member have had an emphasis on legislation or administrative actions in which the Government gets involved. Do we know what parliamentary influence a cross-party group on the Caribbean would have?
It might be worth while writing to other organisations to get their views on the issue. We will write to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice to get the Government's view, but it would be worth having on record for future reference the views of human rights organisations on the idea of microchipping prisoners.
As I am sure he is aware, we have read in the press this week that it is taking longer and longer for people to get on to a community sentencing order.
Our job is to provide the support and back-up that they need to do their jobs effectively. The getting it right for every child programme encapsulates the approach that we believe in.
That meeting will take place within the next month or so.I am committed to ensuring, wherever possible, that people get the right skills, that they are enabled to use them, and, most important, that they have the opportunities to use them.