Oral Answers to Questions Debate
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Stephen Kerr
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(5 years, 10 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
I gently remind the House that topical questions and answers are supposed to be substantially shorter than those for substantive questions. We are behind time. I seek to help colleagues, but colleagues must help each other. Single-sentence questions are in order; a great exemplar of that, I am sure, will be Mr Stephen Kerr.
Stephen Kerr (Stirling) (Con)
Given the announcement last week that RootsTech will hold a global event next October at the ExCeL in London—the first time the event has been held outside North America; it will be attended by 10,000 enthusiastic family-history professionals and so forth—what is the Minister’s estimation of the value of family history to the UK and to Scotland’s cultural economy?
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Michael Ellis)
As heritage Minister, I think family heritage is extremely important.