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HANSARDBudget 2021: Departmental PoliciesWhat assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s policies of Budget 2021.08 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget 2021: Departmental PoliciesI think the Minister has possibly given the game away there by linking an explanation of her refusal to ask for an uplift to legacy benefits to an attempt to pressurise my hon.…08 Mar 2021HANSARDIncome TaxA belated happy St David’s Day to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and to all hon. Members and staff of the House. The Scottish National party will not oppose these regulations. Applying…01 Mar 2021HANSARD Uber: Supreme Court RulingWe can judge this Government’s sincerity and their claims to care about workers’ rights by the fact that the Secretary of State is on record as saying that British workers are…24 Feb 2021HANSARD Coronavirus: Supporting Businesses and IndividualsI am pleased to speak in this debate and to confirm that the Scottish National party will support the motion if it comes to a vote. I do not want to eat too much into the time…23 Feb 2021HANSARDYemenMay I say once again to the Minister, as I have to his predecessors, that the Scottish National party unequivocally condemns the actions of Iran in this conflict and the…08 Feb 2021HANSARD Exiting the European Union (Value Added Tax)The SNP will not oppose these motions either, because, as with most statutory instruments, the choice is to approve or reject them in their entirety, and rejecting them in their…03 Feb 2021HANSARD MyanmarMay I associate myself with the remarks of the Minister and the two Opposition Front-Bench spokespersons? The Minister has reminded us that the commander-in-chief and his deputy…02 Feb 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMost of my constituency has hardly seen temperatures above freezing since before the turn of the year. Pensioners in around 200 other parts of the United Kingdom are now getting…25 Jan 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Response: Defence SupportMy constituency has traditionally provided significant numbers of recruits, particularly to the Army. Whether these soldiers are on the frontline against a military threat or a…12 Jan 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseIf the Leader of the House thinks that the current arrangements represent a covid-secure Parliament, he must have been attending a different Parliament from the one I attended in…30 Dec 2020HANSARD Trade (Disclosure of Information) BillThe hon. Gentleman stood last year and was elected, as were the majority of Members of this House, on a manifesto that included an unconditional guarantee of a free trade…16 Dec 2020HANSARD Trade (Disclosure of Information) BillI am very pleased to be able to speak in this Second Reading debate. This is actually the first time I have spoken in the Chamber since I contributed to the debate on the…16 Dec 2020HANSARD Trade (Disclosure of Information) BillI am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Could I just correct his understanding of what I said? I made it perfectly clear that I appreciated that this Bill in another way has…16 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe Secretary of State is keen to remind us that we all have an individual responsibility to look after not only our own health but that of one another. Every single unnecessary…14 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)I fully support the principle that we should share this kind of information with friendly overseas authorities—subject to appropriate precautions to prevent it from being used for…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central although I confess I was not quite able to pay attention to the early part of her remarks, because I was…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I hear what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but I am also looking at the following words: “factors including, but not restricted to”. Are those words completely without meaning? If…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am pleased to speak to the two new clauses, which stand in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen South. Throughout our debate on the Bill, Members have…10 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Twelfth sitting)The Minister comments on a speech by the shadow Secretary of State at an earlier stage of the Bill’s passage and on the undesirability of building an industrial strategy test into…10 Dec 2020