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If I cannot answer them, I will seek advice and help from my officials on either side of me. I just want to tell the people who are operating the videoconference link that we can hear them talking.
We are holding this debate only a couple of days after an NCH report confirmed that we still have 310,000 children getting brought up in poor families and 200,000 pensioners who are officially poor. In other words, nothing is changing in relation to poverty.
They are required to nominate sites, but they can consider several other sites. We can send the Executive the Official Report of the committee's discussion of the petition to ensure that the committee's view is clear.
I acknowledge the important work of organisations such as the Samaritans and of individuals such as Professor Stephen Platt, director of the research unit on health and behaviour change at the University of Edinburgh medical school.
It was the first buyout of a PFI contract in the United Kingdom. I will, of course, continue to monitor significant PFI contracts.That concludes my comments on the first report.