On Monday, Councillor Graeme Campbell was woken up in the middle of the night. His car had been fire bombed.

If we focus on Scotland—as we are supposed to do—we see that local front-line divisional officers are down by over 400 since last year.

It has now been more than eight months—36 weeks to the day, in fact—since the justice secretary promised “concrete action” on temporary r

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2. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to prison officers balloting on industrial action. (S5T-01646)

The minister says that she is not complacent, but the SNP has entirely ignored ideas from the Conservative benches that might stem the vi

I thank the minister for that answer. She mentioned good order.

Members might recall that, at stage 2, I lodged an amendment that sought to implement a review of the operation of the bill as enacted.

I am pleased to open for the Scottish Conservatives and, more so, to speak in favour of passing the Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Eviden

I have nothing further to add other than to thank colleagues for their comments and to endorse what has been said.