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“Is that something you would be able to provide to the Committee? I think we would be fairly interested in hearing that.”

“Okay, because that is quite important for getting a sense of what proportion it is of the total.”

“It is very positive to hear that there is a breadth of roles now. You mentioned that there are over 70 Scottish staff. What is the total number of staff?”

“Why do you think there have been low levels of Scottish-based staff working on the production historically? Were the opportunities just not there previously?”

“I will ignore that comment. This caused great excitement in my household. I cannot think of many programmes that have actually brought myself and my daughter together in recent years, but this was definitely one of them. You are aware of some of the criticisms that there have been around “The Traitors” previously and t…”

“Q5. Some 1.5 million women in the UK live with endometriosis, which is a painful and life-changing condition. As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on endometriosis, I met Jessica Smith and Endo Warriors West Lothian to discuss their campaign for a national endometriosis registry to capture and audit diagnosis,…”

“When you were talking about vacant properties there, I was just wondering if using some as almost pop-ups to bridge a transition between online and having a bricks-and-mortar presence in the high street might de-risk that shift and allow online businesses just to try it out.”

“If I could just ask Professor White very quickly, what does your work on urban retrofitting suggest about how best to build sustainability goals into regeneration?”

“Professor White, you mentioned housing, and Professor Sparks, you mentioned the cost of building out of town as opposed to in town. When you look at town centres and trying to encourage more town centre living, there are often particular challenges around that because the spaces for building are smaller and a lot of de…”

“Chair, if I may just follow on from that, I will be very brief. Do you agree that we have to take into account our demographic changes? We have growing elderly populations and issues with transportation. So actually having more town centre accommodation for elderly people and people with disabilities is a good thing an…”

“I was just going to follow up on the point that you made around some planning aspects and compulsory purchase orders. Do you believe that the deliverability of the policy framework and other initiatives is largely hampered due to the lack of resourcing and funding at local government level where a lot of these things h…”

“Much work to shape and maintain our town centres happens at a local level. I am interested to hear what you think national Government can do to help local areas do more on having that breadth that we have spoken about this morning for mixed-use development, promoting town centre living and reusing vacant spaces. Profes…”

“If I can ask very quickly, where we have seen success in our high streets, what do you think have been the most important factors in that success? What role do you think physical and cultural heritage play in high street improvement and regeneration?”

“In my contribution, I spoke about the contribution of people from Blackburn to changing what was going on in their community. Will the Minister reassure me that the Government will engage directly with communities, to hear from the very people whose lives are blighted by this antisocial behaviour?”

“It is a pleasure, Ms Jardine, to serve under your chairship today, and I thank the hon. Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Robbie Moore) for presenting these petitions on behalf of the Petitions Committee. It is clear that there is a strength of feeling about fireworks, not only in this place but up and down the country—n…”

“My hon. Friend is making an important point on firework control zones. They were sold as a bit of a silver bullet, but unfortunately I heard from fire chiefs and police officers during my time as a councillor that they had been given no additional resources or funding to enforce them. That is surely a must.”

“Are SMEs facing the same challenges and needing to bring people over, at the moment, to fill gaps?”

“We need to invest in our home-grown talent.”

“I do not imagine that any of this will be a surprise to Skills Development Scotland or other Government agencies. Are we starting to see the move towards a framework or plan for skills that are required in the short to medium term and for the long term?”

“I am sure you are having many ongoing discussions with Scottish Government given, as you mentioned, the upcoming elections, but also current international events. Do you get a sense that there is a tension between what is going on in the world and long-held Scottish Government policy positions? Do you have the expectat…”