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That includes work in schools.There is a need for other work that is targeted at men who have sex with men, who may not be gay or bisexual. That includes condom provision in prisons, and I am glad that some progress may be made on that shortly.
Once commissioners are appointed, their position is highly protected for the duration of the warrant.Other than in exceptional circumstances that must be tabled in Parliament, ministers may not direct us or interfere in what we do.
Paragraph 126 of the financial memorandum states:"A budget of £50,000 has been assumed, on the basis that the Commissioner may be unlikely to want to conduct more than one large research project in the course of a single year."
It can also be applied to the clients, but it tends to be applied less in their case and in relation to such things as kerb-crawling. You may know that the Home Office has a major review of sexual offences generally.
The Scottish Parliament and the Executive may find a way to resolve that problem, which has been around for a long time, in the climate that we are able to create here.