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HANSARDSupport for People Fleeing War in UkraineThe small village of Golspie in Sutherland will shortly be hosting seven families from Ukraine. There is no lack of people in the Highlands volunteering to put up those good…20 Jun 2022HANSARDFusion EnergyDounreay in Caithness in my constituency was in the 1950s the site of the UK’s first nuclear reactor. The nuclear industry did a very great deal to provide local employment and to…07 Jun 2022HANSARD UkraineI compliment the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (Margaret Ferrier) on her moving contribution. After church last Sunday, while having tea and coffee, I met three…25 May 2022HANSARD UkraineThere we have it again—an example of the hon. Gentleman’s knowledge of and great interest in this subject, and I thank him for his intervention. It underlines and reinforces the…25 May 2022HANSARD UkraineThe hon. Member gives me the opportunity to enlarge on something I touched on. He is completely correct to say that we have to look carefully at where we should have our fleet and…25 May 2022HANSARDCost of Living: Fiscal ApproachThe hon. Gentleman is making an excellent speech. The public sector workers in my vast, remote constituency underpin life—I am thinking of health workers, people who keep the…25 May 2022HANSARDCost of Living: Fiscal ApproachCarers for the elderly, the infirm and the sick are crucial in remote parts of Scotland such as my constituency. I have carers pulling out, giving up and calling it a day right…25 May 2022HANSARD UkraineThe Minister is being extraordinarily generous. As the flip side of what he says about our supplying the Ukrainians with equipment, it would be interesting to know what things are…25 May 2022HANSARD Ukrainerose —25 May 2022HANSARD Point of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Last week, on Thursday 19 May, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport misrepresented several official statistics during a…24 May 2022HANSARDLow-Performing Areas: Education FundingYou will understand, Mr Speaker, how disturbed I was to learn that Highland Council schools have been ranked as the worst in the whole of Scotland for numeracy and literacy among…23 May 2022HANSARDPreventing Crime and Delivering JusticeWill the hon. and learned Member give way?11 May 2022HANSARDPreventing Crime and Delivering JusticeIt is my lucky day. The hon. and learned Member is making a most interesting speech. When it comes to this Bill, does she agree that the weighting of primary and secondary…11 May 2022HANSARD Ukraine: UK Military SupportMay I associate myself and my party with the strong support for Ukraine that has been expressed by the Minister and the shadow Secretary of State? Last month, I raised with the…11 May 2022HANSARDPreventing Crime and Delivering JusticeNo debate of this nature would be complete if I did not refer to Space Hub Sutherland. It is not all bad on the Conservative Benches: we are profoundly grateful for the…11 May 2022HANSARDPreventing Crime and Delivering JusticeOn access to cash, does the hon. Gentleman agree that the Government should take proper, firm action to make the banks work together to produce some sort of common access—some…11 May 2022HANSARDDebate on the AddressThe right hon. Gentleman’s constituency and mine border the Cromarty Firth, which has the Nigg fabrication yard where many of the mightiest oil production platforms in the North…10 May 2022HANSARDChannel 4 PrivatisationShall we just remind ourselves of what things were like in the past? When I was growing up, there was an awful lot of pretty mediocre stuff on the box from across the pond, such…27 Apr 2022HANSARDPrime Minister’s Visit to IndiaLet me return once again to defence. At the G7 last year, considerable mention was made of the new D-10 grouping, which includes India and is against the autocracies of the world.…26 Apr 2022HANSARDFootball GovernanceThat is quite enough from the hon. Gentleman seated behind me. I accept what the Minister is saying about the Government’s good intention on this front, but I seek reassurance…25 Apr 2022