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To ask the Presiding Officer how many Social Inclusion Partnerships (SIP) are currently in operation; how many people are employed by each SIP, and what employment, administrative and property costs are associated with each SIP.
Probably about two months ago, we took a snapshot of our population in order to determine how many were recidivists and how many were first-time offenders.
That is an attempt to stress the point that we will not say that modernisation is working simply because we have dealt with so many hundreds of parliamentary questions and have had so many debates in the Parliament.