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The Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work, Keith Brown, attended the event, and the positive response that he gave to the report was very well received.
There were also concerns about the practical difficulties associated with virtual custody courts. Simon Brown of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association told the committee that he had participated in a pilot scheme for a virtual custody court in Kilmarnock sheriff court that was “a singular failure”.
In the 1990s, I used to visit the oil rig fabrication yards at Nigg Bay and Ardersier. Back then, they were owned by Brown and Root—Halliburton—and McDermott, both global corporations and both, as it happens, headquartered in Houston, Texas.
However, we are now three years on from the publication of that strategy, and we had actually started to mention this about 10 years ago—I figure that I had brown hair at the time. At that point, we really expected to be well under way by now, but we are not, so that is where we need to start.
She has heard me talk in the chamber about the callous approach that has been taken by the Conservatives, but will she acknowledge that, in the time of the previous Labour Government, 1 million children were lifted out of poverty because of the action that was taken by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in reforming the social contract?
Indeed, in his evidence to the committee, Stuart Brown of the EIS Further Education Lecturers Association highlighted that it is a specific mission of colleges to deliver education to people in their communities who have perhaps been left behind by other parts of the education system.
Those women do not disagree with the “That guy” message; their problem is with what they see as a gulf between Police Scotland’s public relations rhetoric and the reality of its management culture. The women handed Keith Brown a letter questioning whether the national force is able to change.
I appreciate that this has been a source of speculation, so I commissioned an international panel of experts chaired by Professor James Brown from Sydney, who is a professor in official statistics, and including the UK national statistician, Sir Ian Diamond.