This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
However, we must also take account of the fact that many couples choose not to marry but to live together in stable relationships in which they bring up children.
However, I hope that none of us will ever have to live day to day with fear for our personal safety, because we have chosen to be public figures and public servants.
As Ian Jenkins has said before, a connecting-up of the Borders is essential for freight, for passengers, for entrepreneurs who come with their families to live in the Borders, for young people who return and for tourists.
Often they are to do with how people earn their living and how they can continue to live and work in the area that they choose or in which they were born.
As John Home Robertson has said, there are huge waiting lists of families who are living in overcrowded conditions. We have difficulties even in placing women who have been subjected to domestic abuse in a house in an area where they want to live.
The key purpose of private landlord registration is to drive out of the sector people who have no concern for or interest in the people who live in their houses or the people who live round about them.