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I noticed that the Royal Society of Edinburgh said in its submission that it was sorry that poisoned bait would not be banned by the bill. Where I live, poisoned bait is an issue—red kites are found poisoned.
I understand that appointing someone who lives in Scotland and who is known here may give people confidence, although people have had no difficulty with the system that I regulate—they have not suggested that that system is anything other than properly run.
It describes the need to facilitate refugee and ethnic minority communities in their attempts to live in communities and to develop community identities and strengths and—through those—a voice.
There is no requirement on us to provide living-cost support for EU nationals. I asked two other questions that you have not yet answered, but I will pursue this issue for the moment.
It is important that we as a committee speak to people who live in communities where drugs are a real issue, and where people have personal experience of the drug problem—they might live next to a drug user, they might be parents of a user or they might be users themselves.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of children living in poverty are from an non-ethnic minority group, expressed also a percentage of the total non-ethnic minority population.