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HANSARDEnergy Rebates: Highlands and IslandsI thank the hon. Member for his intervention. He will not be surprised to hear that I agree; indeed, I mentioned earlier in my speech that The Lancet has reported on the health…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEnergy Rebates: Highlands and IslandsThe Minister is always very thoughtful and considerate about these issues, and she wants feedback, but people in the highlands and islands need action. I think I am hearing from…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEnergy Rebates: Highlands and IslandsI am grateful to the hon. Member for underlining that there are big impacts on health, as well as the point that where there is a rebate and some funding to help people, it has a…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEnergy Rebates: Highlands and IslandsMy right hon. Friend is making a clear point about the fact that, as generation is happening, the people of the highlands and islands are losing out. As I underlined in my speech,…06 Mar 2024HANSARD Budget ResolutionsThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I can make more progress if I am not interrupted, so I do appreciate your advice on that. Talking about advice, I want to return to Citizens…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEnergy Rebates: Highlands and IslandsI realise that the right hon. Gentleman is concluding his speech, but it is important to point out that this is an issue that I and others, and possibly even himself, have raised…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEnergy Rebates: Highlands and IslandsThe right hon. Gentleman is right to talk about this as being part of a wider package. I secured the debate today to be specific about the need for a highland energy rebate, but…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEnergy Rebates: Highlands and IslandsI thank Members who have taken part in the debate. We have had a clear exposition of the issue this morning. I thank the hon. Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy) on the…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEnergy Rebates: Highlands and IslandsI beg to move, That this House has considered the introduction of energy rebates for Highlands and Islands. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley. Before I…06 Mar 2024HANSARD Budget ResolutionsThey are bored by the just transition! They are bored by the cost of energy that people have to pay. They are bored by all these things.06 Mar 2024HANSARDUkraine: Military EquipmentUkraine is on the frontline, not only of its own battles, but of those of international democracy and law. We cannot leave the Ukrainians without in a time of need. Their fight is…27 Feb 2024HANSARDIsrael and GazaWill the UK continuing to sell arms to Israel result in fewer innocent civilians losing their lives in Gaza?27 Feb 2024HANSARDCeasefire in GazaAnyone in Gaza watching their daughter having a C-section under a tarpaulin without anaesthetic, picking up parts of their brother from around the neighbourhood or burying a child…21 Feb 2024HANSARDEconomic Growth in Scotland: Tax PoliciesContrary to what the Minister said, OECD forecasts show that the UK will have the lowest growth in the G20 and the highest inflation in the G7. Ministers like to pretend that…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Support for Civilians Fleeing GazaMy hon. Friend is making a powerful start to his speech. He mentioned the innocent civilians who are being subjected to horrendous conditions. My constituent Dr Salim Ghayyda has…06 Feb 2024HANSARDEconomic Growth in Scotland: Tax PoliciesThe Minister talks about GDP. The Office for Budget Responsibility forecast that GDP in the UK will be 4% lower in the long term due to Brexit. Meanwhile, independent Ireland in…06 Feb 2024HANSARD Finance BillI am sure that the people suffering through the rampant cost of living crisis across the nations of the UK hoped that if the Government tabled a new clause today, it would address…05 Feb 2024HANSARD Finance Bill (Ways and Means)I rise to speak about the procedure being used here. This motion is very odd and worryingly symptomatic of a Government avoiding their responsibilities to this House, given that…05 Feb 2024HANSARD Finance BillIn this Third Reading debate on the Finance Bill, one thing has been conspicuously absent from both the Tory and the Labour Front Benchers’ speeches—the one thing affecting people…05 Feb 2024HANSARD Finance BillThank you, Mr Speaker. Obviously, it is entirely appropriate to have paused for that statement. I was unaware of the news brought to the Chamber, but it is clearly significant.…05 Feb 2024