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Transport Strategies (PE1115) Our final new petition today is PE1115, by Pat Graham, on behalf of the Campaign to Open Blackford Railway-station Again.
Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, visited a Nurse Family Partnership Project in Harlem, New York on Friday 10 April 2009.
Members can be assured that we are taking forward an approach that we believe is the most effective means by which we can reduce the risk of importation of new virus and new variants into Scotland.
Oxfam has pointed out that, in relation to disasters in many parts of the world, women make up 20 million—80 per cent—of the 26 million people who are estimated to have been displaced by climate change.
The benefits of the daily mile are currently being studied at the University of Stirling, but I know from visiting St Ninian’s and other schools that participate in the initiative that, anecdotally, the benefits are not just for the health of the young people concerned but for their ability to concentrate and to attain at school.
I thank the minister for that answer and his recent visit to Kilmarnock’s Grange academy campus, where he saw at first hand the great work that is being done on science, Scottish studies and languages, particularly Gaelic and Mandarin.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with veterans associations and what issues were discussed. (S4O-01046) I regularly meet and visit a range of veterans organisations at both national and local level.
Will he ensure that, as far as possible, the museums and galleries are open to visitors in all seasons, as is the excellent national museum of rural life in East Kilbride? I encourage all members to visit that museum, if they have not already done so.