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I was very impressed with the presentation on the programme. When we consider the prison estates review, I hope that the committee will agree to hear a presentation from the four people who gave us a presentation on the STOP programme.
I welcome George Lyon, who is accompanied by Rob Wishart, who is the chief statistician at the Scottish Executive, and Marina Hughes, who is an assistant statistician in the office of the chief statistician.
I assure her that I will ask officials to examine the project closely to see whether our freight facilities grant mechanisms could provide assistance, if that is appropriate to the development of the project.
I said last year that we would consider carefully how we could use the rates system to assist R and D-intensive companies that could benefit from further assistance.
Will she confirm that, as I discussed with her earlier this year, the regional assistance that might be available for facilities such as those in Glenrothes could be a matter for on-going discussion?
I am happy to communicate to the Minister for Communities the invaluable assistance that rape crisis centres provide to the prosecution of crime in Scotland.
We can then put the matter on our agenda for the committee to determine what future action, if any, it would like to take, with a view to assisting consideration of the petition.
Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2005(SSI 2005/324) Having read through these three instruments, I have a couple of comments about the transparency of the process.
I refer members to the note prepared by the clerk, which invites the committee"to consider whether it wishes to appoint an adviser to assist it in its consideration of the proposed Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill."