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As I have said, I am always open to visiting fire stations and hearing directly from those on the front line, and I will speak to my private office about organising a visit.
That was a prominent issue when the Prime Minister visited India recently. The absence of any movement on the part of the UK Government was one of the reasons why we got so little from that visit.
While the subject of bridges might not dominate the evening news, it is absolutely vital to the daily lives of people in rural—and for that matter, urban—Scotland.
As Christine Grahame highlighted, Midlothian was one of those proud mining communities. At one time, it contained 26 collieries employing 11,000 miners, and today, of course, it houses the National Mining Museum.
We are powerless to stop our budget being cut. We cannot block the Tories’ new anti-trade-union laws, or prevent them from tearing up human rights protections.