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HANSARDScottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU LawThat is more fantasy from the SNP. I find it strange that, when we have a Government on their knees bringing forward a piece of legislation that ultimately could undermine…19 Oct 2022HANSARDScottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU LawIt is a great pleasure to serve with you in the Chair for the first time, Mrs Murray. I congratulate the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Brendan O’Hara) on bringing this debate.…19 Oct 2022HANSARDScottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU LawI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and for raising this, because it is a fallacy that people would want to go back to those kinds of measurements. What the…19 Oct 2022HANSARDScottish Devolution Settlement: Retained EU LawThe Minister has been hugely generous in taking interventions—he is a friendly Minister—but he is not quite answering the questions. He is pretending to answer the questions, but…19 Oct 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty The QueenIt is a great pleasure to follow the “buttocks” of the right hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell)—it will be the first time he has heard that,…09 Sept 2022HANSARD Employment Law: Devolution to ScotlandIt is great to have you in the Chair for this debate, Sir Edward. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Lanark and Hamilton East (Angela Crawley) for securing the debate. At the…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Employment Law: Devolution to ScotlandThe main thing that I object to about the Scottish Government’s pledges and strategies and documents is that they tend to be launched with huge fanfare, including big front pages…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Employment Law: Devolution to ScotlandI cannot recall who was and who was not, but the conversations that went on through the conduit of the TUC, which was responsible for taking those conversations forward, had come…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Employment Law: Devolution to ScotlandIt will have a clear commitment to implement what we are currently doing in terms of the Labour party’s commission. I am not going to discuss what is in the commission in a…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Employment Law: Devolution to ScotlandIf the hon. Member will let me finish the point. This is the fact of the Smith Commission. They did not think through the consequences of cross-border employment and cross-border…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Employment Law: Devolution to ScotlandMaybe. Well, I am not so sure if the Minister is—maybe she will tell us. I do not want to get into the issue of bin strikes and so on—the hon. Member for Glasgow East (David…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Employment Law: Devolution to ScotlandI am glad that the hon. Gentleman mentioned Asda. We could probably spend the rest of the debate coming up with other companies that have done it. There is an argument to be had…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUnion’s Impact on ScotlandThe very fact that the Minister has to read that list tells its own story. The simple truth is that the Prime Minister puts the Union at risk every single day that he clings on.…29 Jun 2022HANSARDUnion’s Impact on ScotlandThank you very much, Mr Speaker. I am sure the Minister would wish to join me in congratulating the Bridge café in Gilmerton in my constituency on winning café of the year…29 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationYes, it is the cultural levelling up that Channel 4 has been able to achieve as part of its own agenda. Analysis by EY—Ernst and Young—which was mentioned by my hon. Friend the…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationYes, but Channel 4 puts all those issues on the table in terms of investing directly in production. Channel 4 provides that shop window. If you say to a production company in…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationIn terms of my Register of Members’ Financial Interests, may I say that my special adviser attended the television BAFTAs as a guest of Channel 4? I am told that I must declare…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationI did not go either. I was not invited. Maybe after this speech I might get an invite next year, if Channel 4 is not privatised. Let me say at the outset that this country is the…14 Jun 2022HANSARDCost of LivingThat is simply not good enough from this Government. Inflation is at a 40-year high, but in reality, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies this morning, it is much higher…18 May 2022HANSARDCost of LivingLet me first join the Secretary of State in wishing Rangers football club all the very best in Seville tonight—although I wish them no luck whatsoever for the Scottish cup final…18 May 2022