Chamber and committees

I am conscious of the time. Let us focus briefly on secure care again. Pauline McNeill has a question on that. I will then move on to community sentencing, when I will bring in Jamie Greene.

Thank you, Professor McAra. That was very helpful.

Fulton MacGregor has a couple of questions about violence reduction before we move on to questions about alternatives to custody.

Thank you for that, Dr Graham. I very much appreciate your passion and insight. Because of the pressure of time, we will move on to looking at community sentencing.

We will move on to questions on the modernisation of the prison estate.

I will bring in Mr Greene before we move on to look at care of prisoners.

I am keen to move on to look at care of prisoners and deaths in custody.

Professor McAra, would you like to come in?

Collette Stevenson, is there anything else that you want to raise?

Good morning and welcome to the Criminal Justice Committee’s fourth meeting in session 6. We have received apologies from Katy Clark.

The first agenda item is to decide whether to take in private item 6, which is consideration of today’s evidence. Do we agree to take that item in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you very much, minister—that is very helpful.

As no member has indicated that they wish to ask a question, I invite the minister to speak to the draft European Union and European Atomic Energy Community (Immunities and Privileges) (Scotland) Order 2021.