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My second question is about the debate that we have had this morning about increases in some places and decreases in others. Mary Scanlon referred to them. To some extent, it is a false debate.
We know that that is a daft idea, and we should never support it.The burden of the current policies falls heaviest on the poorest. In the words of Mary Brooksbank, which can be seen on the Canongate wall,“the warld’s ill-divided; them that work the hardest are aye wi’ least provided”.I am sure that she would have agreed that there is a better way.The UK deb...
That is a particular issue. I thank Mary Scanlon for her intervention, which was useful and appropriate.In New Zealand’s judicial system there is explicit recognition of the issue, which is given due prominence in legislation.
—Official Report, Health and Sport Committee, 12 May 2010; c 3157. Does Mary Scanlon agree that it is quite hard for NHS Lanarkshire to justify the cut in the number of smoking cessation nurses in that area from seven to three?
I do not think that a £2 billion investment in school building—under the current Administration—is "woefully thin".I have in front of me a letter about West Lothian schools from Mary Mulligan that was sent out to voters during the 2007 election campaign.
Although that money was ring fenced previously, it is no longer ring fenced and is now all wrapped up in the local government settlement. Mary Mulligan's point was slightly different—it was about encouraging people to register.
Along with committed investment, for example in the M74, those projects will completely change the accessibility of that area.Some issues around regeneration are not necessarily about brownfield development. As Mary Mulligan probably knows from her constituency the heartlands development in greenfield developments support regeneration of communities.
It takes an 11-year-old to go on the Lesley Riddoch show and give short shrift to the man from the Adam Smith Institute, which Mary Mulligan mentioned, when he was trying to say that fair trade is not a particularly valuable thing.
When I used to go in the 1980s along with my cousin Rose-Marie, she was the sole woman in large parts of the ground, but when I took my daughter Carys to her first game a couple of years ago, I am pleased to say that that situation had changed.