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That the Parliament welcomes MS Awareness Week taking place from 22 to 29 April 2019; understands that more than 11,000 people in Scotland live with multiple sclerosis, which is a neurological condition that can affect the way people walk, move, see, think and feel; welcomes the MS Society’s commitment to funding research into new treatments and a greater understanding of the causes of MS; understands that the MS Society has invested over £218 million in real terms into research since its inception in 1956, including into the MS Society Edinburgh Centre for MS Research and numerous research projects across Scotland; notes the progress that has been made in research in recent years and the role that Scottish-based scientists have made in this, and celebrates the work being carried out by researchers and charities, such as the MS Society, to ultimately stop MS.
Supported by:
Clare Adamson, Alasdair Allan, Tom Arthur, Jackie Baillie, Miles Briggs, Alexander Burnett, Donald Cameron, Finlay Carson, Alex Cole-Hamilton, Angela Constance, Annabelle Ewing, Mary Fee, Neil Findlay, John Finnie, Kenneth Gibson, Jenny Gilruth, Iain Gray, Ross Greer, Jamie Halcro Johnston, Emma Harper, Alison Harris, Liam Kerr, Bill Kidd, Monica Lennon, Richard Lyle, Angus MacDonald, Rona Mackay, Ruth Maguire, Gillian Martin, John Mason, Joan McAlpine, Liam McArthur, Stuart McMillan, Pauline McNeill, Margaret Mitchell, Edward Mountain, Gil Paterson, Gail Ross, Stewart Stevenson, David Torrance, Maureen Watt, Annie Wells, Sandra White