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Scott Pearman, MP

Scott Pearman, MP

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12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Forty minutes, excellent. Thank you.
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Great. So, in relation to Head 4, this is the Attorney General’s Chambers, again this sort of headline issue based upon page B -78, which is the overview of the entire department. If you just look there in relation to the Attorney General’s Chambers, it is going up $1.35 million versus last year, and it is going up about $2 …
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I am afraid that I sat down a little too quickly. I had one last question on the Attorney General’s Chambers, which I failed to put. And that is at page B -91 under General Summary and in relation to the topic of Debt Collection, which was 14050. And we see that there is going …
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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But there we go. Yes. So the next head of six is Court Services, which is . . . Excuse me, one second. [Crosstalk]
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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If only. If only. One of my colleagues has asked in relation to the answer given for debt collection in the previous head, Head 4, whether there is an idea of how much debt in total we are seeking to collect. And I pass that question on on his behalf since I am on my feet already. Whilst that is …
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. So, we are waiting on some of the answers in relation to Court Services, including my question in the Probation Services and the number of questions by MP King. While we do, I think we have got about 20 minutes or so to run. So, I will move on to the fifth of the …
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Pearman. Pearman.
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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We are, barely.
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I am now moving on to the final head of the six heads presented under this Ministry or at least in this debate today, namely, Head 25 involving the Department of Corrections. And, Mr. Chairman, before you took your chair, when Madam Chairman was in the Chair, I had explained that the one head …
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Page B -94, ninety -four. Head 25.
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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So, the headline here, again by reference to the overarching page for the Ministry, which is B -78, is that we have 26077 revised and 26787 actuals in 2023/24. So, against the actuals, it is about a $2 million decline. And I guess my question here is really a bit of a philosophical one. Why does the Ministry believe that …
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Okay. Well, I am grateful to know the Junior Minister does not remember the precise word either, so I am okay on that one for a minute. But it was some sort of audio system to monitor each cell as I understood it. So those are three overarching questions that I have about Corrections. The first one, where are the …
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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We have a minute and a half. [Laughter]
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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With your leave, Mr. Chairman.
12 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That’s very kind. I had a number of questions about the educational programme for prisoners. I will not pose those questions. What I will do instead is simply say, would the Ministry be prepared to extend an invitation to Members of the Opposition to visit those programmes and learn a bit more about them? 424 12 …
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was not sure if [the Honourable Minister] wanted to answer the last one or not.
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes, well, I have a supplementary to that question before my question.
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Given the answer just given by the Honourable Minister, when will we see the 2024 report, which is due 90 days after?
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes . . . no. This is my first question of the day. Madam, thank you. I thank the Honourable Minister for his Statement on the Annual Report of the Registry General 2023 and for tabling this Statement in this Honourable House this morning. The report gives a statistical fig-ure of the Bermuda population of 63,356. I acknowledge that that …
9 May 2025 House of Assembly
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Does the Honourable Minister have other ways to achieve a more accurate popula-tion figure?