:00:20. > :00:24.A very warm welcome to the Scottish Parliament, happy New Year to all
:00:24. > :00:27.future in this first programme of the year. Big news, the First
:00:27. > :00:34.Minister has been cleared of potential breaches of the
:00:35. > :00:38.Ministerial Code. There were complaints from a Labour MEP about
:00:38. > :00:42.Scotland's relationship with the EU, whether the First Minister had
:00:42. > :00:46.taken legal advice on that question. He has been cleared, but the court
:00:47. > :00:53.does say there were muddled at potentially confusing remarks in an
:00:53. > :00:56.interview on this topic with the BBC's Andrew Neil. Let's see if
:00:56. > :01:02.that question comes up. The First Minister is leading a tribute now
:01:02. > :01:05.to the former -- a former SNP minister.
:01:05. > :01:08.Later today, I will be putting forward the Government's programme
:01:08. > :01:12.for Scotland. The thank you very much, First
:01:12. > :01:18.Minister, and we to wish to send condolences to his family. In the
:01:18. > :01:21.first week after the summer recess, the First Minister removed his
:01:21. > :01:24.Deputy Secretary Nicola Sturgeon from Helford bitter in charge of
:01:24. > :01:30.economic recovery. Four months later, it is clear why she was keen
:01:30. > :01:37.to move on. A children's ward was threatened with closure it
:01:37. > :01:42.Livingstone. Such a rate cut at Perth Royal Infirmary. The scandal
:01:42. > :01:46.caused beyond. People with terminal illnesses being denied life-
:01:46. > :01:54.prolonging drugs available in other parts of the country. Nicola
:01:54. > :02:02.Sturgeon proclaimed to be the Yes Minister. Can we start to calling
:02:02. > :02:08.Alec Neil the clean up the mess Minister? As I remember it, when it
:02:08. > :02:12.Nicola Sturgeon, the Deputy First Minister, moved, many voices across
:02:12. > :02:18.the chamber were saying how excellent she had been as Health
:02:18. > :02:22.Secretary. Even Jackie Baillie, I think, moved herself to. I admit it
:02:22. > :02:28.was in contrast to what was said before, but that was the general
:02:28. > :02:33.tone. I do not accept Johann Lamont's revisionist view. Let us
:02:33. > :02:38.look at some of the great successes of the health service. This
:02:38. > :02:40.Government predicted the front line of the NHS budget, delivering a
:02:40. > :02:48.record �11.6 billion worth of resources, something that would not
:02:48. > :02:53.have been guaranteed if we had the misfortune of the Labour Party. It
:02:53. > :02:58.is why I suspect that the thing that really matters, public and
:02:58. > :03:03.patient confidence in the NHS in Scotland, is at a very high level
:03:03. > :03:08.indeed. I could also mention that this party seems almost to be a
:03:08. > :03:14.loan in this chamber now, as I understand it, in wanting to
:03:14. > :03:18.maintain a National Health Service free at the point of need. As I
:03:18. > :03:24.understand it, prescription charges are part of the Labour cuts
:03:24. > :03:27.commission. Perhaps another reason why the Scottish National Party
:03:27. > :03:31.Government's record on the health service is so warmly supported by
:03:31. > :03:34.the Scottish people. Perhaps the First Minister himself may not have
:03:34. > :03:39.been so fulsome in his praise of Nicola Sturgeon when she moved if
:03:39. > :03:45.he realised now what we're hearing about what is happening in the
:03:45. > :03:49.health service. We know what it -- we know there is a real terms cut,
:03:49. > :03:54.at whatever the First Minister says about free prescription charges, we
:03:54. > :03:57.also know it is a service under phenomenal pressure. His denial of
:03:58. > :04:03.that is a denial of his responsibility as the First
:04:03. > :04:07.Minister of this country. Because of course, no matter what gloss the
:04:07. > :04:11.First Minister wants to bid on it, on November seventh the order to
:04:11. > :04:16.rub -- auditor general Caroline Gardner did our health service on a
:04:16. > :04:19.number warning. When I challenged the First Minister on this he said
:04:19. > :04:27.that -- the National Health Service was performing in an outstanding
:04:27. > :04:31.fashion. The Audit Scotland report highlighted Nicola Sturgeon's real
:04:31. > :04:35.legacy - �1 billion repair backlog. Health boards having to borrow to
:04:35. > :04:44.keep services up and running. This is what the auditor general said,
:04:44. > :04:48.not me. And thousands of staffing cuts leaving us with fewer nurses
:04:48. > :04:51.than when the SNP came to power. Given the new revelations on a
:04:51. > :04:55.daily basis about the mess Nicola Sturgeon has left the Scottish
:04:55. > :05:05.Health Service in, does the First Minister still think the Auditor-
:05:05. > :05:09.I think Johann Lamont is wrong, not the Auditor-General. She is wrong
:05:09. > :05:14.in a range of ways, but in particular I know she is now --
:05:14. > :05:18.notice she has now revised her previous claim she made on fourth
:05:18. > :05:27.September last year that there were fewer staff in the health service
:05:27. > :05:33.when I became First Minister. In fact, on June 12th, 130,363 in the
:05:33. > :05:39.health service, compared with 127,000 in September 2006. Actually,
:05:39. > :05:44.more staff in the health service but when the SNP took office.
:05:44. > :05:50.Perhaps why she did not seek to repeat that claim. No doubt we
:05:50. > :05:57.might get a correction at some time. Let us just assume that Jackie
:05:57. > :06:00.Baillie, the person who said that Scotland was the centre of hospital
:06:00. > :06:04.acquired infection just when hospital acquired infections were
:06:04. > :06:08.dramatically declining in Scotland, let's assume that Jackie Baillie
:06:08. > :06:15.and others will be difficult to convince of the excellence of the
:06:15. > :06:19.work of the people in the National Health Service. What really matters
:06:20. > :06:24.is the satisfaction rate among the people. That is recorded in the
:06:24. > :06:27.Scottish Household Survey, not by the Government, but the Scottish
:06:28. > :06:34.results are very. 88% of people were satisfied with their local
:06:34. > :06:38.health services, up from 81% in 2007. Not just a satisfaction ratio
:06:38. > :06:43.at a high level, but also a significantly higher level than
:06:43. > :06:47.when the SNP took office. I somehow think that the verdict of the
:06:47. > :06:53.people of Scotland is somewhat more impartial than divided of the
:06:53. > :06:56.Labour Party benches. After all, is did the verdict of the people of
:06:56. > :07:02.Scotland that has this Government in office and at the Labour Party
:07:02. > :07:05.in opposition? First of all, the First Minister he set -- says he
:07:05. > :07:10.thinks I am wrong. By work on the assumption that he thinks I am
:07:10. > :07:15.wrong. The problem for the First Minister is the Auditor General is
:07:15. > :07:18.saying something very serious, and he is saying that is wrong. Staff
:07:18. > :07:22.across Scotland are raising concerns about the pressures they
:07:22. > :07:27.are under in the NHS. This is not an attack on staff doing a
:07:27. > :07:31.phenomenal job. The charge is that this Government is not supporting
:07:31. > :07:36.them and making that job more difficult. It seems every week we
:07:36. > :07:40.have another damning report on the health service. In 2008, Nicola
:07:40. > :07:46.Sturgeon said she had made tackling health inequalities our top
:07:46. > :07:50.priority. Yet the auditor general, Caroline Gardner, cut -- told the
:07:50. > :07:56.audit committee in December that in terms of life expectancy the gap is
:07:56. > :08:01.still increasing. The Chief Medical Officer, Dr Harry Burns, also
:08:01. > :08:05.abolished the lack of progress in tackling health inequalities in
:08:05. > :08:10.this -- under this Government. Now we are told that we're having a
:08:10. > :08:13.rethink to how we approach health inequalities. Is that an admission
:08:13. > :08:19.that Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP have completely failed to deliver
:08:19. > :08:23.their pop health target? -- pop health target?
:08:23. > :08:27.Health inequality is a huge issue for the Scottish people. The reason
:08:27. > :08:33.Harry Burns made that point, I heard at the commit the SNP have
:08:33. > :08:36.done nothing. As Harry Burns has indicated, the SNP have made the
:08:36. > :08:40.tackling of health inequalities and facing up to that situation, which
:08:40. > :08:46.incidentally has been with us for regeneration and more in Scotland,
:08:46. > :08:49.one of the top priorities of our Government. I can gently say to the
:08:49. > :08:53.Labour Party that we have a range of measures directed to improve the
:08:54. > :08:59.health of the Scottish people. One and only one of the most important
:08:59. > :09:02.of these is our attitude to alcohol and in particular the attempt to
:09:02. > :09:05.introduce minimum pricing which would have a significant effect on
:09:05. > :09:09.improving the health of the Scottish people. If the Labour
:09:09. > :09:14.Party had shown rather more enthusiasm for that, perhaps we
:09:14. > :09:24.would have a slightly more credibility in their claims on the
:09:24. > :09:34.National Health Service. But this chamber would do well to
:09:34. > :09:35.
:09:35. > :09:39.remember there are certain things which... I think a National Health
:09:39. > :09:44.Service free at the point of need should unite at this chamber. I
:09:44. > :09:47.think Nicola Sturgeon made at a key object of of Government policy. We
:09:47. > :09:53.know that a squad that has to be done that we know the measures, we
:09:53. > :09:56.also know that the measures have revealed immediate short-term gains.
:09:56. > :10:00.This is something that should unite the Scottish Parliament because it
:10:00. > :10:05.is of huge important to -- importance to the Scottish people.
:10:05. > :10:14.The problem is for the First Minister that seeing yet does not
:10:14. > :10:18.make it puts off. -- that saying that. We understand the challenges,
:10:18. > :10:23.and the challenge and -- challenge in Government then there is to test
:10:23. > :10:27.what you do and spend against these outcomes. When I said that, the
:10:27. > :10:32.First Minister said, no, we will not have that debate at all. The
:10:32. > :10:36.fact is, Nicola Sturgeon was health secretary for five years. In the
:10:36. > :10:40.127 days since she left, her successor has had to deal with the
:10:40. > :10:44.review after review. A review into the full extent of the waiting
:10:44. > :10:49.lists for health boards across the country, when Nicola Sturgeon told
:10:49. > :10:56.us that NHS Lorian was a you -- isolated case. A review of access
:10:56. > :10:58.to ground-breaking drugs for people with terminal illnesses, because
:10:58. > :11:01.under Nicholas said -- Nicola Sturgeon we went from being the
:11:01. > :11:05.best in the UK to the worst. And a review of health inequalities and
:11:05. > :11:11.the resuscitation of a task force five years after Nicola Sturgeon
:11:11. > :11:14.made it her top priority. How many reviews do we need? How many
:11:14. > :11:19.independent reports do we need before the First Minister realises
:11:19. > :11:26.his Government is failing to deliver for the health of the
:11:26. > :11:29.people of Scotland? Can I just point out it was Nicola
:11:29. > :11:34.Sturgeon who established the review into waiting lists across Scotland.
:11:34. > :11:39.Of course, the fact we are prepared to establish that review and do
:11:39. > :11:42.something about it is in sharp contrast to the Labour Party, where
:11:42. > :11:49.hidden waiting lists were institutionalised within the Labour
:11:49. > :11:53.Party policy. Johann Lamont talks about the difference between saying
:11:53. > :11:58.something and doing something. We have talked about protecting the
:11:58. > :12:04.health budget, and we have done that. We have delivered in full to
:12:04. > :12:11.-- a promise to pass on the Barnett formula consequential and this year
:12:11. > :12:15.it will see a record 11.6 billion resource budget for health in
:12:15. > :12:18.Scotland in 2015. Exactly what we said we would do. In sharp contrast,
:12:18. > :12:23.the Labour Party would not give up the commitment to protect the
:12:23. > :12:26.health service budget, but in the famous Iain Gray interview on
:12:26. > :12:31.Newsnight refused to say it the health service budget would be
:12:31. > :12:33.ring-fenced in Scotland. We said we would have it as a key priority of
:12:34. > :12:39.public spending in Scotland and have delivered that, exactly what
:12:39. > :12:43.we said we would do in the election, which is why this party has been
:12:43. > :12:53.trusted by the Scottish people with the National Health Service and our
:12:53. > :12:54.
:12:54. > :12:58.of our vital public services in To ask the First Minister when he
:12:58. > :13:01.will next meet the Prime Minister. He not back plans for the
:13:01. > :13:08.foreseeable future. -- no plans.
:13:08. > :13:11.A to my ideas ago, the Scottish Government brought into being
:13:11. > :13:15.payback orders, when the justice minister said criminals would be
:13:15. > :13:18.paying back by the sweat of their by the harm they had done in our
:13:18. > :13:21.communities. Can the First Minister tell me how
:13:21. > :13:24.much of the work handed down in the last financial year has been
:13:24. > :13:29.completed and does he think the scheme is working?
:13:29. > :13:33.A think we are making good process on community payback orders across
:13:33. > :13:41.the range of Justice in Scotland. Can I gently remind Ruth Davidson
:13:41. > :13:48.we now have crime had the lowest level in Scotland for 37 years.
:13:48. > :13:53.Just over 105,000 fewer recorded crimes reported to the police than
:13:53. > :13:59.in 2006-07. This party is delivering on
:13:59. > :14:04.criminal-justice in Scotland, in sharp contrast to the Tory
:14:04. > :14:09.Government in West Minister or the Liberal Coalition in Edinburgh. --
:14:09. > :14:15.Westminster. That is a no, he cannot tell me about his own scheme.
:14:15. > :14:23.I will use his own figures. In 2012, more than 10,000 orders were handed
:14:23. > :14:30.out, of which 7763 involved at will work. All of those, only 2536 were
:14:30. > :14:33.completed. That is less than one third. Even worse, of over 2,500
:14:34. > :14:39.requirements are officially terminated last year, one-third
:14:39. > :14:43.were signed off and completed, so the work will never get done. Last
:14:43. > :14:50.week, a Sheriff raised concerns criminals are coming up, been
:14:50. > :14:56.marked down for work without lifting a finger. Sheriff Graham
:14:56. > :15:01.Buchanan thinks the public would be horrified at if they knew how these
:15:01. > :15:06.so-called robust community services were being administered. There is a
:15:06. > :15:11.massive backlog, whole sentences are signed off only partially
:15:11. > :15:17.completed, and offenders are credited with worked they never do.
:15:18. > :15:22.Communities are being conned and not paid back. Is that why on
:15:23. > :15:32.Monday this Scottish Government advertised for an upside body to
:15:33. > :15:33.
:15:33. > :15:37.evaluate whether the orders are We evaluate policies because we
:15:37. > :15:42.welcome independent scrutiny of the success of the policies.
:15:42. > :15:45.Independent scrutiny is something I welcome. Today is an excellent they
:15:45. > :15:55.to be doing that since I have been cleared yet again of the charges
:15:55. > :15:57.
:15:57. > :16:03.which have been made by the opposition parties in this chamber.
:16:03. > :16:07.We look very carefully at the success of the policies. I will
:16:07. > :16:15.point out that the reconviction rate in Scotland dropped to its
:16:15. > :16:21.lowest level in each of the last 13 years. It is important that the
:16:21. > :16:31.community payback order is part of an approach which focuses on
:16:31. > :16:35.reducing offending. Not only are we subjecting all policies to scrutiny,
:16:35. > :16:40.but given that we have 1000 more police in the street and
:16:41. > :16:45.communities around Scotland, this is the worst time in recent history
:16:45. > :16:49.to be a criminal in Scotland, at the best time in recent history to
:16:49. > :16:59.be a member of the public, with fear of crime up falling for the
:16:59. > :17:02.
:17:02. > :17:07.first time for many years. Last week NHS Tayside made a
:17:07. > :17:17.reduction in surgery at Perth Royal Infirmary. That is an top of
:17:17. > :17:19.
:17:19. > :17:27.reductions in other services over the past year. Does the Scottish
:17:27. > :17:37.government support this? Their health secretary will directly
:17:37. > :17:41.
:17:41. > :17:49.address the question all NHS Tayside. Brief supplementary.
:17:49. > :17:53.By two. What support can the government offer the staff of the
:17:53. > :17:59.restaurant there who are to be made redundant following the sad
:17:59. > :18:06.decision to close this social enterprise? The government will
:18:06. > :18:14.extend the normal impact on pay schemes and try to help the people
:18:14. > :18:19.in that situation. I had been to that restaurant a number of times.
:18:19. > :18:29.The government has made available record levels of support for social
:18:29. > :18:31.
:18:31. > :18:40.enterprise in Scotland. Question number three. I am not switched on.
:18:40. > :18:47.Thank you. What will the impact on changes to child benefit be to
:18:47. > :18:54.families in Scotland? They attack on the previously universal child
:18:54. > :19:02.benefit is expected to affect 1000 households in Scotland. Of these
:19:02. > :19:05.households 60,000 are expected to lose their entire child benefits.
:19:05. > :19:09.The First Minister will be aware that the vast majority of Scottish
:19:09. > :19:12.MPs voted against his attack on child benefit at Westminster. Would
:19:12. > :19:19.he agree with me that this is further proof that this Parliament
:19:19. > :19:29.should be the one which has the responsibility to protect Scotland
:19:29. > :19:31.
:19:31. > :19:35.from further Tory cuts? Labour and the SNP voted in the same lobby in
:19:35. > :19:38.the House of Commons on Tuesday. There was a recognition that the
:19:39. > :19:42.range of changes will affect one million households in Scotland.
:19:42. > :19:49.They will lose substantially. That includes many working councils in
:19:49. > :19:53.Scotland. They will lose huge sums of money as a result of the
:19:53. > :19:56.policies of the Tory and Liberal administration at Westminster.
:19:56. > :20:06.Unity of purpose and defending people at this time of great
:20:06. > :20:06.
:20:06. > :20:14.economic trouble is to be applauded. They would have been an extra vote
:20:15. > :20:24.if the leader of their No campaign had not been parading around the
:20:25. > :20:30.
:20:30. > :20:35.country. Questor number four. does the report on the Scotland's
:20:35. > :20:40.place in renewables eight sustainable growth? This is a key
:20:40. > :20:43.part of a strategy for economic growth. I welcome the fact that 84
:20:43. > :20:49.% of respondents to this survey said Scotland is the most
:20:49. > :20:55.attractive place across these islands to invest in renewables.
:20:55. > :21:05.The report said, the market is upbeat about prospects for 2013 and
:21:05. > :21:08.beyond. And so say all of us. you for that answer. The report
:21:08. > :21:12.also highlights Scotland's international reputation as a
:21:12. > :21:16.leader in renewables. Does the First Minister agreed that this is
:21:16. > :21:22.a very encouraging fact that we seek to attract further investment
:21:23. > :21:32.to Scotland as a result to create clean energy jobs from the Mull of
:21:33. > :21:41.
:21:41. > :21:49.Galloway across the country. There has to be a contrast. I welcome the
:21:49. > :21:55.report. The report says that Scotland is recognised as an
:21:55. > :22:04.important contributor to renewables globally. It has a clear place in
:22:04. > :22:07.Hearts and minds of many investors. What is the position of the
:22:07. > :22:11.Scottish government on the assertion by the Chief Constable of
:22:11. > :22:16.the police service of Scotland that the change in legislation is
:22:16. > :22:26.required to properly to find their roles and responsibilities of the
:22:26. > :22:34.
:22:34. > :22:44.services human-resources and finance functions? The 2012 at is
:22:44. > :22:45.
:22:45. > :22:52.based on these. The chief constable and the chair of the police a
:22:52. > :22:58.authority are due to meet soon. Everybody in the chamber will look
:22:58. > :23:02.forward to seeing that agreement one week on Friday. We look forward
:23:02. > :23:06.to the conclusion of that meeting. We were looking forward to a
:23:06. > :23:09.conclusion before Christmas as was promised by the just as Secretary.
:23:09. > :23:12.The Justice Secretary said in December there is no remaining
:23:12. > :23:17.contention about what the legislation says about respective
:23:17. > :23:22.roles. The First Minister himself before Christmas dismissed this as
:23:22. > :23:28.a creative tension between the two men. This was wishful thinking at
:23:28. > :23:31.that time and remains so today. Is it not true that the Cabinet
:23:31. > :23:37.Secretary for Justice has stood back and let apiece with two heads
:23:37. > :23:43.emerge as both camps duplicate human resources, by gnats and other
:23:43. > :23:47.functions? The Cabinet Secretary is not in control of this situation.
:23:47. > :23:55.What will the First Minister do now to ensure that this power struggle
:23:55. > :24:03.is sorted out immediately? I was overestimating the goodwill and
:24:03. > :24:10.enthusiasm for the reconciliation of the dispute. The proposed
:24:10. > :24:16.structures are intended to be three of duplication and overlap. It was
:24:16. > :24:21.before Christmas in a letter to the justice committee, on 20th December,
:24:21. > :24:26.that the chair of the it a priority confirms that progress had been
:24:26. > :24:36.made and that the hope was that agreement would be reached on 18th
:24:36. > :24:38.
:24:39. > :24:48.January. There is a substantial body looking forward to agreement
:24:49. > :24:49.
:24:49. > :24:55.at that meeting. I am sure the First Minister welcomes the it
:24:55. > :24:58.genuine interest in this. Does he agree that we need to focus on and
:24:58. > :25:03.highlight substantial progress has which have been achieved since last
:25:03. > :25:13.summer. We have seen the establishment of a national road
:25:13. > :25:14.
:25:14. > :25:19.patrol. That is a fair point. It is a fair point. It is important to
:25:19. > :25:24.focus on to the very substantial range of issues which have been
:25:25. > :25:34.introduced, rather than just focus on a disagreement which hopefully
:25:34. > :25:44.is near reconciliation. The new police service of Scotland will
:25:44. > :25:48.
:25:48. > :25:53.have 17,000 officers. That was something that the Labour Party
:25:53. > :26:00.forecasts would take 30 years to deliver on. Back at what has been
:26:00. > :26:03.delivered early, it would seem. have the application pack for the
:26:03. > :26:11.appointment of the chief constable. I caught, the overall purpose of
:26:11. > :26:13.the post is to establish and lead the police service of Scotland. The
:26:13. > :26:20.post holder will provide inspirational leadership including
:26:20. > :26:24.the direction and control of over 17,000 police officers and 6,500
:26:24. > :26:32.police staff. Were the applicant misled? Is the legislation for
:26:32. > :26:41.what? What went wrong? I know that job prospects for the Liberal
:26:41. > :26:45.Democrat are poor these days! I know that people across the chamber
:26:45. > :26:50.are genuinely looking forward to the meeting one week tomorrow at a
:26:50. > :26:55.reconciliation of this so we can afford with the new national police
:26:55. > :27:05.service in Scotland. This is something that would never have
:27:05. > :27:15.
:27:15. > :27:18.been brought into being if it was up to the Liberal Democrats. What
:27:18. > :27:24.is the response of the Scottish government to a recent survey which
:27:24. > :27:32.places Scotland as a number one tourist destination of 2013?
:27:32. > :27:38.heard some disgruntlement in the Tory benches. This is a good news
:27:38. > :27:41.story for the tourist industry. The fact that one of the major
:27:41. > :27:43.broadcasters has put forward Scotland as a number one
:27:43. > :27:53.destination will be felt across Scotland to be something of a
:27:53. > :27:59.
:27:59. > :28:04.success at an accolade for our visitor industry. I suggest that
:28:04. > :28:11.most people in Scotland will say, well ban for making such a wise
:28:11. > :28:19.choice at putting Scotland's top of the last. -- Scotland top of the
:28:20. > :28:29.list. Two councils have come together to celebrate Lanarkshire
:28:30. > :28:32.
:28:32. > :28:42.to a 1013. What boost to this campaign will result from this
:28:42. > :28:45.survey? The centenary of David Livingstone is a very important. I
:28:45. > :28:55.was visiting an exhibition in at the National Museum of Scotland
:28:55. > :28:58.
:28:58. > :29:06.recently. I would commend the people of Scotland to attend that.
:29:06. > :29:10.This is the year of natural Scotland. There will be an
:29:10. > :29:17.additional �2.9 million as part of that shovel ready capital programme
:29:17. > :29:21.to improve the facilities at Scotland's national parks.
:29:21. > :29:25.Scotland's national parks are already popular. This extra funding
:29:25. > :29:35.will lose their appeal and help us encourage ever more people to come
:29:35. > :29:35.
:29:35. > :29:40.to our beautiful country. The First Minister will be aware of the 12 %
:29:40. > :29:48.drop in tourism numbers this summer which is very worrying. What steps
:29:48. > :29:52.is he taking to prevent this traffic decline? There was at 12 %
:29:52. > :30:02.increase in overseas tourism expenditure over the period. There
:30:02. > :30:06.
:30:06. > :30:11.was a two % decrease in domestic expenditure. Most analysis of these
:30:11. > :30:14.figures would say it was an exceptionally good performance,
:30:14. > :30:18.particularly in international tourism, in a year which many
:30:18. > :30:20.people suspected that international jurists might be diverted elsewhere
:30:20. > :30:27.because of the understandable concentration on the London
:30:27. > :30:32.Olympics. I do not share the pessimism about these figures. I
:30:32. > :30:36.think they are very good figures in these circumstances. I know that