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That is why we must encourage people—young women in particular—into school and further and higher education. As the World Bank’s chief economist has noted, an investment in women’s education could potentially provide the highest return available.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the planned completion date was for the Baillieston to Newhouse M8 upgrade in May 2007 and what the current estimated completion date is.
It might interest members to know that it was no arbitrary date plucked from the international calendar, and many women’s rights groups used that date prior to the resolution of the United Nations.
Officials from London and Bristol came, but they used local knowledge—which has been emphasised in every speech—in every aspect of their work. Several telephone lines, banks of computers, televisions and filming equipment were installed.
At the turn of the third or fourth month, the women set up the food bank in the club. Donations came in and bags were prepared for each of the families.
One can receive papers that say that the case preparer is a particular person, but when one phones the number, that person is on holiday—of course, people are entitled to their holidays—so one has to find out who else is dealing with the case.
The Government is actively studying a means of increasing recruitment to the bone marrow bank. It has stated that it will continue to encourage work to raise awareness of it and increase registration, through its support of SNBTS.
We have already made progress in taking forward many of those steps and I draw members’ attention to the “Equally Safe: final report” that we published on the eve of the 16 days of activism, which details our response to the Covid-19 pandemic and many of our key actions and activities to date. We continue to emphasise the importance of our primary preventi...