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To ask the Scottish Executive what advice the First Minister took before agreeing to allow Allan MacAskill to accompany him on his visit to Qatar, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-04458 on 9 January 2012.
The Cabinet Secretary said there was every chance of that happening. She said
"When I visited the University of Edinburgh I saw a variety of well know brands of products alongside reusable products that are new to market.
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12 February 2018
At the same time as we inform the Government that we would like it to appoint someone as a new member of the council, we make it public on our web page, where we say that the council has decided to suggest Mrs X as a new member of the council and the Government now has to decide on that.
An advantage of the superaffirmative process is that the 60-day consultation period may flush out or bring to light new evidence. If new evidence did come to light, we would have to look in detail at how it would affect any ECHR issues.
That needs to be done fairly quickly, because the latest paper that you sent to the Public Audit Committee said that the University of Highlands and Islands had 4 per cent of students from poorer backgrounds compared with Glasgow and Forth Valley, which have around 35 per cent.
As the minister stated, this debate is just a few days after the news that a new variant of Covid-19 has emerged—there is already talk today of a second variant in South Africa.