As we welcome to Glasgow some of those countries where people are struggling with that question of life and death on LGBT equality, we should take pride in telling the story of Scotland’s progress from being a country that felt unable to decriminalise homosexuality at the same time as the rest of the UK and in which, in Glasgow and Edinburgh, people felt that it was not yet safe to have a pride march—we could not do that here—to being this country, which is proud to pass equal marriage legislation for this generation and for the future.17:56 I am grateful to speak in the debate on an issue that means so much to me and to so many of us.