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If I go to a primary school in my constituency and ask the pupils what they want to do, nine out of 10 of the wee primary 7 boys will say that they want to play football for Rangers or Celtic.
You are very welcome, and I hope that you enjoy your visit to Scotland. We enjoyed a good visit to Germany back in 2001, so this is, in a sense, a return visit for the Bundestag committee.
Some of us campaigned on that issue, and the Scottish people expect the committees to visit them where reasonable. The case for that is strong, and there is consensus across the parties on it.
I say this to the Parliament today: let us all work together to make the aspirations and ambitions that Paul Martin has for his area a reality.I have discussed a visit to Sighthill with Paul Martin. That visit will happen very soon.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 February 2002
These figures do not include visits involving only officials nor visits from representatives of other United Kingdom institutions.A number of visits to the Parliament have included a meeting with a minister.
The issue that has been raised is whether through voluntary amalgamations or legislative arrangements to amalgamate brigades we could realise economies of scale. Sections 7 to 10 define the fire and rescue functions.