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HANSARDIndustrial Strategy: Impact on ScotlandThe industrial strategy is transformational for Scotland. A year ago, the Government inherited an industrial crisis after 14 years of no plan and a complete lack of interest on…09 Jul 2025HANSARDIndustrial Strategy: Impact on ScotlandThe energy profits levy was brought in by the former Energy Minister in the previous Government, who just so happens to be sitting across from me at the Dispatch Box today. We…09 Jul 2025HANSARDIndustrial Strategy: Impact on ScotlandI join the hon. Gentleman in paying respects on the 37th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. It has left an indelible scar on Scotland, and we will never forget the lives…09 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025: Scottish Public ServicesGoing by the votes last week, the hon. Gentleman wants to keep the failed, broken welfare system that the Tories put in. What we have done as a Government is a pay rise for…09 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025: Economic GrowthUnder this Government, it is the working people of Scotland who will feel the benefit of economic growth. We have given the largest settlement in the history of the Scottish…09 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025: Economic GrowthThe hon. Gentleman should go and speak to Scottish businesses and apologise for voting against the Budget and against the £14 billion extra that will go to Scotland as part of the…09 Jul 2025HANSARDFor Women Scotland: Supreme Court JudgmentI think the F-word could be used about whatever the Scottish Government have done—and that is “failure”. When it comes to the elections in May 2026, the Scottish public will have…09 Jul 2025HANSARDSpending Review 2025: Economic GrowthYet again, I agree with my hon. Friend. I pay special tribute to both her and my hon. Friend the Member for Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West (Martin McCluskey), who have done so…09 Jul 2025HANSARDFor Women Scotland: Supreme Court JudgmentThe application of the Supreme Court ruling to services in Scotland is of course a matter for the Scottish Government, and it is for the Scottish Government to ensure they fully…09 Jul 2025HANSARDFor Women Scotland: Supreme Court JudgmentThe ruling brings clarity and confidence for women and service providers such as hospitals, refuges and sports clubs. Single-sex spaces are protected by law under Labour’s…09 Jul 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Licences: Economic GrowthThis is the first opportunity I have had to apologise to the House for using an inaccurate figure on previous occasions. I had told the House that the Scottish Government had…04 Jun 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Licences: Economic GrowthA consultation on Rosebank and Jackdaw is concluding, and the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero will report on it in due course. There is also the North sea…04 Jun 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Licences: Economic GrowthI am grateful to my hon. Friend for the question. What astonishes me more than anything is that the shadow Secretary of State for Scotland was the Energy Minister when the energy…04 Jun 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Licences: Economic GrowthThe hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but he was the Energy Minister. Indeed, as my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Dr Arthur) may remember, the leader of the SNP…04 Jun 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Licences: Economic GrowthI join the shadow Secretary of State in congratulating—through gritted teeth—Aberdeen on winning the Scottish cup. Speaking as a big Hearts fan, it is always nice to see the…04 Jun 2025HANSARDNorth Sea Oil and Gas Licences: Economic GrowthI do not know whether the hon. Member agrees with net zero anymore—certainly, his party leader does not seem to believe in it—but that is where the jobs are for the future. There…04 Jun 2025HANSARDTown Centre RegenerationThe leader of the SNP in this House voted against the setting up of Great British Energy in his constituency, which is creating jobs in Scotland. He is against the EU trade deal,…04 Jun 2025HANSARDSchool StandardsThe right hon. Gentleman will have heard me remind the House on a number of occasions that John Swinney said that education was the “defining mission” of his SNP Government, but…04 Jun 2025HANSARDSchool StandardsThere is a simple answer to that question: the SNP Scottish Government.04 Jun 2025HANSARDSchool StandardsThe House may not know that last year, 1,351 pupils left high school in Scotland without a single qualification to their name, and one in six Scots is not in education, employment…04 Jun 2025