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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to promote the art of Asian Scots. The National Cultural Strategy, which we shall launch later this summer, will promote and celebrate Scotland's cultural life in its full diversity.
I seem to remember that a former Tory Prime Minister said:"Advisers advise and Ministers decide"—Official Report, House of Commons, 26 October 1989; Vol 158, c 1044..I hold to that principle fairly strongly.
That allows us to consider the instrument again in the new year. We can keep in touch on whether we need to have a meeting.National Waste Plan (Parliamentary Debate) National Waste Plan (Parliamentary Debate) Our final agenda item is on our national waste plan report.
The concern is that we could invent a completely new definition. The witnesses have rallied round one or another definition—either the one that Scottish Gas, Scottish Power and the Executive have or the one that other organisations, such as Citizens Advice Scotland, have suggested.
In those circumstances, I will use the powers that I have under standing orders and section 26 of the Scotland Act 1998 to require witnesses to give evidence under oath.
A study carried out in Tower Hamlets about three years ago—I am afraid that I cannot quote the specific details although I could try to find the study—showed clearly that, when people moved from poor-quality, damp housing to new-build housing with good energy efficiency, the number of visits to the local general prac...