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To ask the Scottish Executive how many live babies have been born in each deprivation quintile in each year since 1998-99, broken down by NHS board area, expressed as a percentage of all live babies born in that NHS board area.
We should continue to have a watching brief, because if discussions are on-going the issue remains live and we should acknowledge that that is the case.
That has always been a problem—it is not a completely new problem—and we simply had to live with it. However, it is much more difficult to live with it given the level of organisation in serious crime that there is now.
On that issue, Kathleen Marshall, Scotland's commissioner for children and young people, has made interesting points about children who live in drug and alcohol-misusing families.
If a prison is located far from where families live, some people will prefer to move nearer to their family member, rather than have the hassle of travelling.
Such people have not got into debt by spending money for the sake of it, but through the harsh reality of living on a limited income. Would the Executive be willing to consider that suggestion?
First, ministers must understand what it is that they are doing when they introduce a freedom of information act and commit themselves to living with it. If such an act is any good at all, it will embarrass ministers from time to time—perhaps more often than that.