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The second thing is that all the parliamentary committees have a really important role in acting as an amplifier for the concerns that all MSPs hear from their constituents and people in their regions.
That site was in North Lanarkshire, which is now part of the region for which I am an MSP, and the council’s figures on Gypsy Traveller housing provision have not got any better.
My general experience of working with Police Scotland in Edinburgh is that its headquarters at Fettes is very good at informing local MSPs about changes that are taking place.
That is outrageous, but it is working, because many women are now telling me that they have been taken off it and they will probably be coming to all their MSPs to tell them the same thing. GPs have a duty to prescribe the drugs that their patients need.
It stands, in conclusion, that tonight has revealed that we have the Scottish Government, the First Minister, the cabinet secretaries and now SNP back-bench MSPs on one side, and the sovereign Parliament, the press and the people on the other.
Last September I attended a meeting hosted by Anas Sarwar, where families affected by type 1 diabetes called on MSPs to raise awareness of the condition and to put Scotland at the forefront of type 1 diabetes research.