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I have some serious concerns in the area of women's offending. I am not the first MSP to stand here and raise such concerns and I will certainly not be the last.
Our first witnesses are Gillian Kynoch and Dr Maureen Bruce of the Scottish Executive's health education and diet branch. I welcome Tommy Sheridan MSP and John McAllion MSP, who are co-sponsors of the bill, and Karen Whitefield MSP.
That is not to say that engineering students are wasting their time, because if an engineer becomes an MSP or an investment banker, they will probably be better at their job, because the training that they get is very useful.
It was my view that the response of the committee in setting up the inquiry, and the response of the many MSPs who lobbied the Executive, ensured that the change in funding was postponed for a year.
I want to close—because I am on time and I do not want to keep hard-pressed, tired-out Labour MSPs from getting home tonight—by addressing the issues that were raised by Allan Wilson.
I believe that it is the wish of the majority of MSPs to include in the census additional questions on religion and ethnic group, which I am pleased have been accepted.