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The Disability Discrimination Act 1995, which is reserved to Westminster, protects disabled people from discrimination in employment, access to goods, facilities and services, the buying, renting or selling of land or property and education.
I am pleased that Highland Council, for example, has designated land for affordable housing in its latest local plan. I must now move on to the very important issue of enforcement.
At last, one hour before today's debate was due to start, a messenger magically appeared at my office with a letter from the minister, saying that providing the trust deed and rules was not a matter for the Scottish Executive, but was the responsibility of the trustees or the solicitors acting on their behalf. In more than 26 years as a parliamentarian, I h...