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However, the Mental Health Foundation is involved in a project called together to thrive, which is based in Dundee, in the constituency of one of your fellow MSPs, Joe FitzPatrick, who has been along to see it.
In my view, it would not be common practice for individual MSPs to seek specific discussions with the Scottish Sentencing Council prior to any member’s bill—or perhaps on any topic.
You and I know that, whenever debates take place, a variety of organisations circulate briefings to all MSPs. As far as I am aware, that is standard practice.
Without the data, the evidence is anecdotal. I appreciate that, as MSPs, you will all have people knocking on the doors of your surgeries to complain about landlords, but I am not sure that you often have people knocking on them to say that their landlord is great.
We were there to showcase what those artists do. Two MSPs were present, but the rest of the people were mainly from the creative and cultural sector, which means that we were in a room talking to ourselves.