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To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is between diagnosis and treatment in all Scottish cancer treatment units, listed for each type of cancer.
It was when I was in Scotland at the conference that launched the proposal for a Scottish human rights commission that I discovered that in the United Kingdom you regard discrimination and equality as something separate from human rights.
In Scotland 5,666 academic staff were submitted for assessment under the exercise—12 per cent of those submitted for assessment across the United Kingdom as a whole. That figure is much higher than Scotland's percentage share of the population, which is less than 9 per cent.
That is confirmed when we see how, in the classless United States of America, potential wealth increasingly dictates life chances and educational choices.
They reflect changes that were made to the United Kingdom Electoral Administration Bill and ensure that those anti-fraud measures will also apply to local government elections in Scotland.
For many children, that will mean being placed with foster families, for others it will mean being placed with other relatives, and for a small number a children's home or unit will be in their best interests.
Subject to our work programme, we could invite the Minister for Justice to give oral evidence on the outcomes of the Scottish Executive's input into the United Kingdom's presidency of the European Union.
I hope that this year in Scotland we will have a serious debate about the matter that we are discussing, that there will be a serious debate elsewhere in the United Kingdom and that we will make rational decisions that can be justified to the Scottish public not only now but for generations to come.