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If I talk to farmers or people who are concerned about neonicotinoids in my constituency, I tell them that they can raise issues with me and I can make representations on them as a constituency MSP—as Rachael Hamilton can. However, if we go down the route that the UK Government is taking, that will not be possible.
The point of putting a bill through Parliament is that it gets proper scrutiny and that MSPs are able to amend what the Government is bringing forward in the bill.
Before posing my question, I express my support, as an MSP for West Scotland, for the many local jobs that Prestwick airport creates across the west of Scotland and particularly in Ayrshire.
I will touch on the intelligence gathering system. As a Lanarkshire MSP, I remember that, in 2014, there were reports of higher than expected mortality rates in acute hospitals in NHS Lanarkshire.
Skype for Business is great, but when an MSP is meeting bigger groups in their constituency office or trying to meet MSPs elsewhere—for example, in the Highlands—what facilities might there be to facilitate videoconferencing?