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HANSARD Finance BillThe hon. Member highlights the economic consequences of this heading south on jobs in Scotland. Is she surprised and disappointed, as I am, that not a single Scottish Labour MP…10 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillExactly. The hon. Gentleman raises the question of jobs, and the Government are playing fast and loose with jobs in the oil and gas sector. They are playing Russian roulette. They…10 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillThe changes to the EPL, particularly those set out in clauses 15 and 17, will have a hugely damaging effect on jobs and the Scottish economy. This is also an inauspicious day for…10 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillI am very grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. What is her understanding of what will happen to domestic consumption of oil and gas products in the United Kingdom if the…10 Dec 2024HANSARD Finance BillOn a point of order, Madam Chair. The last but one speaker, the hon. Member for Earley and Woodley (Yuan Yang), called me out regarding my perfectly legitimate comment that there…10 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxIs the hon. Member, like me, slightly irate when she hears UK Government Ministers talking about how the terms of the proposed agricultural property relief are much more…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxWill the Minister give way on that point?04 Dec 2024HANSARD Employer National Insurance ContributionsIt sounds like the shadow Chancellor is unconvinced by the shrill chants of Labour Members that the Government will fix the foundations of the economy, and he has good reason for…04 Dec 2024HANSARD End of Radio Teleswitch Service: Rural AreasThe operative word of my hon. Friend’s intervention was “fair”, and I will come on to exactly who owns the risk.04 Dec 2024HANSARD End of Radio Teleswitch Service: Rural AreasI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. He has raised a couple of points. One is really important, and that is whether or not customers have an option. They actually do not…04 Dec 2024HANSARD End of Radio Teleswitch Service: Rural AreasI am pleased to raise the issue of the radio teleswitch service decommissioning in the House this evening. This is a pressured and important matter for 4,665 households in my…04 Dec 2024HANSARD End of Radio Teleswitch Service: Rural AreasDoes the Minister agree that there needs to be a change of tone and language? It is all very well for the Government, the regulator or the companies to feel the urgency, but if…04 Dec 2024HANSARD End of Radio Teleswitch Service: Rural AreasThe right hon. Gentleman will have no small number of these customers in his constituency, and he touches on the important point of the vagueness around this. Customers are being…04 Dec 2024HANSARD End of Radio Teleswitch Service: Rural AreasThe hon. Gentleman is right that Northern Ireland is a different energy market from Great Britain, but there will be, without question, electric-only customers in the larger…04 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillThe Minister is being very generous in taking a second intervention from me. I realise that the bar for credibility in the Treasury is very low right now, but she hoots and toots…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillA £200 million black hole in the Scottish Government’s core finances, rising to £450 million when partner agencies are included—what kind of stability does the Minister think that…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillThe Government will receive £10 billion from this intervention in the tax regime. How many times are they going to spend it?03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillIs the hon. Gentleman concerned, as many of my colleagues are, that the Government will not give the full details on compensation for the non-core public sector activities that…03 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillWhat is the café owner, the hotelier, the mobile mechanic, the gardener, the florist and—dare I even say it?—the farmer, if not an ordinary working person? The Government’ s false…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEconomic InvestmentOne of the economic investments that we do not want to see in Angus and Perthshire Glens, or anywhere else in Scotland, is foreign multinationals buying up farms because farmers…03 Dec 2024