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HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)No. I have taken a lot of interventions and am going to make a bit of progress. My second point is about timing. I do not accept the SNP’s argument at all that the timing is an…29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)I am happy to agree with the hon. Lady about the responsibility of Post Office Ltd—I said that a few moments ago—but the prosecutions based on that Post Office evidence were taken…29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)May I just make the point and then I will give way? The Post Office must be held to account for that institutional cover-up, and it is the responsibility of this place and the…29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)That is absolutely right. The key point is that there is no question about the Post Office being held to account for the institutional levels of cover-up—29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)The suggestion of dubious lectures coming from the Scottish National party is slightly misguided. I accept the point that the legislation goes above normal legal precedent, but…29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)May I make a bit of progress? I will then give way. There is also the question of the evidence used around corroboration. There are differences in the convictions. More…29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)I start by paying tribute to several people across this House from a number of different parties. When I arrived here last year, I could tell they had already been working hard on…29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)If the SNP is unable to act, there will be no more dithering and there will be no more delays, because Labour will act. For that reason, I will not be supporting the SNP motion.29 Apr 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)I would share that distaste, but those comments were reflecting what the Lord Advocate has said. I have letters from the Lord Advocate in my hand that repeat that point a number…29 Apr 2024HANSARDRecommendations of the Infected Blood InquiryI rise to present a petition on behalf of those infected and affected by the contaminated blood scandal, in particular my constituent Richard Gilmour, who was infected in 1974…22 Apr 2024HANSARDHumanitarian Situation in GazaThe Minister has said on a number of occasions today how complex the humanitarian situation is on the ground. UNRWA is the aid agency with most of the logistical and…17 Apr 2024HANSARDIran-Israel UpdateOn the wider humanitarian crisis in Gaza, there is now a famine across the area. In response to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova), I…15 Apr 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseMay I begin by joining the tributes of Mr Speaker and those on the Front Benches to Tommy McAvoy? He represented my constituency of Rutherglen for 23 years, and was a committed…14 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI know I am in a different party to the hon. Member, but I am in the same country, so it concerns me how nurses in Scotland are treated, and they are paying more tax than their…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThis morning the Chancellor appeared to suggest that income tax and national insurance contributions will be merged as part of his commitment yesterday. As national insurance is…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe hon. Member mentioned the Child Poverty Action Group. After the Scottish Government’s Budget, it said that it was “bitterly” disappointed and that, as it stands, the Budget…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is a pleasure to follow a fellow Scot, my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham). A decade ago George Osborne—remember him?—stood in this place to deliver…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI forgot she was a sitting Member, Mr Deputy Speaker; I apologise. The Government are putting off any long-term spending plans to the next Government to avoid facing up to the…07 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsDoes the Minister agree, however, that many of those jobs are part of a low-wage economy? The OBR, which he cited, said that in the 13 years of the Conservative Government pay has…07 Mar 2024HANSARDFinancial Settlement for ScotlandWhile the SNP and the Tories argue about the financial settlement between the two Governments, they do agree on two things: first, that working people should pay the price of this…06 Mar 2024