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It is a while since I have heard the coo’s tail mentioned, but there we are. I call Mary Fee to close for the committee. 16:39 It is a pleasure to close the debate on behalf of the Equalities and Human Rights Committee.
The evidence suggests that a cultural change was needed to achieve higher levels of social prescribing. As Rose Marie Parr, the Scottish Government’s chief pharmaceutical officer, said: “We can educate people to not think that a prescription is the first thing.
My understanding is that the convener of the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing—it was Mary Fee at the time, I think—had a role to play in the process that led to the appointment of Susan Deacon as chair of the SPA.
Last year, we had a terrific year in the Edinburgh city region with “Avengers: Infinity War” for seven weeks of filming, which took over the Pelamis building to do their builds in but filmed largely on the streets, as I am sure you are all aware from the various traffic management regulations we brought in. We also had “Mary Queen of Scots”, and we brought...
A point that was made eloquently by Clare Adamson and Mary Fee is that human rights and the position that we have arrived at in relation to them is not something that happened at the beginning of time; it has evolved over time and has been hard fought for and hard won by a number of individuals throughout history.
I have seen some fabulous exhibitions at the national museum: on the Vikings, on Catherine the Great, and on Mary Queen of Scots, where I learned that my former colleague Lord James Douglas-Hamilton had a very good claim to the throne, which I drew to his attention—the lack of pursuit thereof is why the family head has remained on the family shoulders.
There are clearly areas in which we can collaborate very strongly, whether it be on Erasmus, Marie Curie or looking again at the horizon 2020 approach.
Well done to him—he gave a most interesting speech, too.The issue is of enormous interest to me, as it is to Mary Scanlon and Rhoda Grant, because it is about distance.