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To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any reasons for the proportion of prisoners serving sentences of one year or less increasing by 6% in 2022-23 despite the presumption against short-term sentences.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 October 2021
These have been filled on an interim basis and will be re-advertised in early 2022.” Our papers also note that four non-executive directors will reach the end of their terms in 2022.
I am conscious of the SFC’s forecast on inflation, which it thinks will average 8 per cent across 2022-23 before falling back in line with the Bank of England’s 2 per cent forecast from 2024-25.