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A copy will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre: Document Title: Information on Forensic Databases “ Requested by Robert Brown MSP (Bib. number 50444). S3W-31832
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-21825 by Keith Brown on 27 March 2009, how many of the new or refurbished schools referred to had their outline business cases agreed before May 2007.
I am happy to do that. However, if Mr Brown’s constituents have concerns about the valuations, he should advise them to make the necessary appeals against them.
We are seeing figures such as Elon Musk, who is in control of a powerful social media platform, explicitly advocating for political violence in this country, and we are seeing large parts of the media and prominent politicians clearly trying to normalise the idea that black and brown people cannot be British—or English or Scottish.
I know of only one Prime Minister who made a positive comment about freedom of information while they were in office, and that was Gordon Brown in a speech in 2007. Those sorts of things really matter when it comes to pushing forward the culture from, as Kevin has said, compliance towards openness.