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HANSARDScotland’s FutureI am intervening just to ask why the hon. Member has turned up. He does not come here that often, so why is he down here complaining about the debate he is taking part in? [Hon.…14 Dec 2022HANSARDScotland’s FutureIt is a pleasure to take part in the debate. Let me start on some of the comments made by Government Members and by the hon. Member for Edinburgh South (Ian Murray) about the…14 Dec 2022HANSARDScotland’s FutureIs it not strange that the right hon. Member for North East Somerset (Mr Rees-Mogg), who is vehemently opposed to Scotland having a referendum, was advocating referendums to allow…14 Dec 2022HANSARDScotland’s FutureWill the Minister give way?14 Dec 2022HANSARDScotland’s FutureIt is not for me to decide. We respect devolution and we will decide what we want to debate in our Opposition day debates. We all know that Government Members like to use the…14 Dec 2022HANSARDScotland’s FutureWhile the hon. Gentleman is trying to rewrite history, will he confirm that the SNP voted to stay in that customs union, rather than some arbitrary notion of a customs union? We…14 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is not just Baroness Mone who made obscene profits out of VIP lane-awarded contracts for PPE purchases. Private Eye has long highlighted other companies that made record…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseLast week, the Leader of the House used the trope about how powerful the Scottish Parliament is, but the reality is that it is not even the most powerful devolved Parliament in…08 Dec 2022HANSARDVeterans: SupportI met Help for Heroes, which has done great work to support veterans and to utilise LIBOR funding, which has now ended. What assessment has the Minister made of potential…08 Dec 2022HANSARD Called-in Planning Decision: West CumbriaThe decision has been condemned by the Chair of the Climate Change Committee. Chris Stark, chief executive of the committee, retweeted that this is “climate vandalism and economic…08 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportThe hon. Lady says it is not an either/or, but the reality is that if too much money is invested in nuclear, its generation capacity means that there is not enough scope for…07 Dec 2022HANSARDSupreme Court Judgment: Scottish Independence ReferendumThat might be the case in the Supreme Court, but if we look back, we see that John Major said of Scotland that “no nation could be held irrevocably in a Union against its will”,…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportI thank the right hon. Member for bringing forward this debate. He rightly makes the comparison with nuclear strike rates, but in doing so we should remember that the £92.50…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportI agree with the right hon. Gentleman, and that is why further support is needed. In many ways, though, that also shows the pace of deployment to deliver these projects in the…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportSorry, I need to go on. It might have taken slightly longer to get to this point and there are good reasons for that, but Scotland leads the world in wave and tidal stream…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. Like everybody else, I congratulate the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) on bringing…07 Dec 2022HANSARDMarine Renewables: Government SupportI need to move on. However, if there are any blockages, I am happy to support streamlining. I know that Marine Scotland has massively increased its resource to try to speed things…07 Dec 2022HANSARDSupreme Court Judgment: Scottish Independence Referendum6. Whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of the findings of the Supreme Court on the reference by the Lord Advocate of devolution issues under…07 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsT8. An audit conducted by Open Democracy found that think-tanks such as the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange—favourites of the Tory…01 Dec 2022HANSARDPolitical Finance Regulation and Electoral LawI thank the hon. Lady for that answer. With the ongoing mystery funding of think tanks, the reluctance to regulate online campaigning and the introduction of voter ID, nobody…01 Dec 2022