Scottish Conservative chief whip John Lamont said the Scottish government should "focus on ending automatic early release, which would not only keep the public safer but increase the prospect of a prisoner completing their rehabilitation".

BBC: Saughton Prison

Scottish Conservative chief whip John Lamont welcomed any measure which put people off carrying knives, but argued the move on consecutive sentences would not be needed if the SNP enacted a pledge to end the automatic early release of prisoners.

BBC: Knife crime jail terms to increase in Scotland

Offenders will only be able to apply for consideration of removal after waiting 15 years following release from custody and there will be no automatic appeals.

BBC: Q&A: Sex offenders register

She said that since MEPs had an "automatic and constitutional right to lists, her authority for their release would not anyway have been required".

BBC: Dobson seeks end to selection row

Sets deadlines for the declassification and release of an existing backlog of some 400 million pages of records previously subject to automatic declassification, which includes archival records related to military operations during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

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