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I am aware that, at a UK level, there was support for the whole campaign, which we are happy to endorse.In Scotland, we have a very active campaign to reduce smoking. The latest stage will be the public consultation on smoking in public places.
The Westminster Government has come back with a new set of proposals and we have come back with a new set of proposals, too, which are the draft regulations that we are considering today.
The report sets out the key areas of work and has various statistics and details of visits undertaken. We divulged one or two of those statistics to the Legislation Committee of the National Assembly for Wales via videolink earlier this morning; we mentioned the large number of bills and SSIs that we have dealt with.
I ask the clerk to remind members of the need to get accommodation sorted out for our visit to Orkney. We have been advised that the accommodation in Orkney is going fast.
We take the matter seriously and we are making progress. Last week, I announced the new housebuilding figures for this year, which show a rise in the number of new starts from 6,400 to 7,100 this year and to 8,000 next year.
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made through the National Waste Plan towards achieving recycling and composting rates of 30% by 2008 and 55% by 2020. The latest figuresfrom the Scottish Environment Protection Agency show that we recycled/composted24.4% of municipal waste in 2005-06.