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The issue is important. I do not want to get hung up on party politics, so I ask him, please, to come to my office to meet me and tell me his ideas, which we will make sure are part and parcel of the new strategy that I am developing.
We therefore recommend that we should get a handle on that and get a sense from the Government and the Parliament in Scotland of what they would do with those powers.
There is also an exciting range of creative and cultural opportunities funded through the get into summer programme. In August, I had the opportunity to visit WHALE Arts centre in Wester Hailes—another organisation doing fantastic work in the community through arts and culture.
It takes the power out of the abusers' hands and means that even if they try to hide their past in interactions with their prospective new partner, that new partner has a means to circumvent that deceit and get the facts.
We should never forget that this bill is not about us; it is about the young people who, as Martin Whitfield rightly said, will have new, life-changing opportunities. I do not mind if they do not know who I am, but I mind if they do not get those opportunities.