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HANSARDUniversal Credit: Low-income FamiliesWhat a surprising contribution from the hon. Lady—I would have thought that if she believed that, her colleagues in the Scottish Parliament would be advocating it. Instead, we…08 May 2019HANSARDEuropean Elections: Voter RegistrationIf the hon. Gentleman can bring forward details of any citizens who have tried to register but not succeeded in doing so, I will obviously look at that. There have been many…08 May 2019HANSARDEuropean Elections: Voter RegistrationI am content that the arrangements are robust. The UK Government have worked to ensure that the “register to vote” website, which has been running since 2014, is secure against…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementThat is absolutely the case, and the power grab myth has been deconstructed on many occasions. The reality, as we have heard in previous questions, is that significant powers on…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementThe fundamental issue is that when the people of Scotland determined their own future in the 2014 referendum and voted decisively to remain in the United Kingdom, the hon.…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementI do not know what the hon. Gentleman’s definition of winning that election will be, but that election is to elect Members from Scotland to the European Parliament for as short a…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementI absolutely agree. It is completely ridiculous to suggest that my constituents in Annan should use one currency to get the bus to Carlisle and another currency to get the bus…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementI commend the hon. Gentleman and my right hon. Friend the Member for Wyre and Preston North (Mr Wallace), the two other Members who were in that first Scottish Parliament back in…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementI commend my hon. Friend—as I have done previously—for his work on the borderlands initiative, which demonstrates that in the south of Scotland and the north of England, so much…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementThe sum is in the region of £100 million. As far as I am aware, none of it has been directly made over to local government in Scotland, although I am sure that the Brexit…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementIt is obviously a matter of concern that welfare powers are being delayed, some of them until 2024. However, my hon. Friend may not know that this morning Derek Mackay, the…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementI certainly agree with my hon. Friend that the SNP Government would do better to focus on the domestic issues that are important to the people of Scotland rather than on…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementI am channelling the Edinburgh agreement, which said we would have an independence referendum in 2014 and that both sides would respect the result.08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementAs I myself told that conference, there is only one guaranteed way to get an independence referendum off the table and discussion of independence away from the Scottish…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementMy recollection of the 2017 general election is that the SNP lost 500,000 votes and 21 seats and came within 600 votes of losing another six.08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementOf course I agree with that principle, but I would point the hon. Gentleman to the recent opinion poll showing that only one in five people in Scotland want another independence…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementI was inclined to vote for the hon. Gentleman to succeed your good self, Mr Speaker, before that intemperate question, although I note from his manifesto that he would no longer…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Devolution SettlementMr Speaker, may I take this opportunity to mark the 20th anniversary of the first elections to the Scottish Parliament? Three current Members of this House were elected to that…08 May 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Discussions with Scottish GovernmentI would commend the Scottish Government for their actions in relation to preparing for a no-deal outcome in the imminent future—that these preparations were being made was…27 Mar 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Discussions with Scottish GovernmentI do not accept the hon. Gentleman’s analysis. I do not support a no-deal Brexit, but I do not support revoking article 50 either.27 Mar 2019