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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.
However, the letter also mentions "receptacles"— —or anything that an inspector may have to inspect. I am smiling because there is a wonderful word in paragraph 117 of our legal brief.
We are receiving instruments in huge batches—there are more than 30 to consider at this meeting. That may be inevitable. Perhaps the process cannot be controlled and is demand led or, as Adam Ingram said, the overload may be to do with the end-of-term rush.