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Liz Smith talked about the take-up of science subjects in schools and the Scottish baccalaureate. Mary Scanlon mentioned the number of modern apprenticeships in life sciences.
There were excellent speeches in that debate from many who have not contributed today—we heard then from Fiona McLeod, Malcolm Chisholm, Richard Simpson, Mary Scanlon, Dennis Robertson, Mary Fee and David Stewart.
I thank Mr Drummond and Mr Evans for their attendance here today.11:04 Meeting suspended. 11:09 On resuming— We continue our scrutiny of the financial memorandum by taking evidence from the Scottish Government bill team. I welcome Mary Cuthbert, Donald Henderson and Marjorie Marshall.
By way of example, when I attended COP20 in Lima last December, I met the UN special envoy on climate change, Mary Robinson, and the troika+ of women leaders on gender and climate change as part of our gender day.
I understand why the system that you set up was not given the information—Mary Scanlon has already alluded to that—but it still will not work if you do not have the skills.
That struggle is even greater if people are not being paid a proper wage. As Mary Fee outlined, unfortunately many women—more than 60 per cent of women—are not being paid the living wage.
We will go straight to questions. Mary Scanlon will start us off. Since the Parliament was set up in 1999, there has been no shortage of British Sign Language initiatives—I will not read them out to you, but our committee paper mentions that there were seven separate initiatives between 2000 and 2011.
I am sure that Jackson Carlaw would like to take the opportunity to disassociate himself from the comments of his Westminster colleague who said that the poor cannot cook nowadays. Naturally, I would: the Mary Berry skills of the average Scot are exemplary.