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HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyBefore I let the Minister intervene, I ask him to confirm that the United Kingdom Government recognise that although the United Kingdom has a trade deficit with the European…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyI want Scotland to continue to be a successful trading nation. I want the United Kingdom to go back to being a successful trading nation, as it once was, but on completely…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyI apologise, Mr Davies. I say briefly to the hon. Member for Hornchurch and Upminster that the Scottish Government and previous Scottish Executives run by other parties have done…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyThere was a recent case in which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office refused to support visits abroad by the First Minister of Scotland. That refusal was welcomed by the Scottish…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyI do not doubt what the hon. Gentleman says, but that leads on to something else I was going to mention. If anything is seen to be quintessentially British, I do not have a…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyThe fact remains that industry in the United Kingdom is not nearly competitive enough compared with industry in some of the countries that we should regard ourselves as seeking to…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyI want to get back to the topic that the hon. Member for Hornchurch and Upminster diligently set out. As I said, when the starting gun is fired, I will be ready to debate why…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyI am puzzled as to how refusing to respect a referendum that said that Scotland should continue to elect Members of Parliament to sit in this place could be consistent with the…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyI will deal with one interruption before I take another. I accept the verdict of the people of my nation and of this nation. I demand—I do not ask, beg or plead—that the sovereign…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyI have been absolutely consistent, before, during and after the referendum, that I will continue to campaign for the best trade deal that we will ever have, which is membership of…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyI confess to being a bit surprised at being called so soon, but I am grateful for the opportunity to sum up. I commend the hon. Member for Hornchurch and Upminster (Julia Lopez)…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyI am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way so early. I may have misheard her, but I think she referred to the need to counter the threat of a backstop. The backstop is there to…23 Jul 2019HANSARDUK Trade and Investment StrategyThe hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that the NHS in Scotland, like the NHS throughout the United Kingdom, has a serious shortage of expert, professional specialist staff. Part…23 Jul 2019HANSARD Universal Credit: Managed MigrationI recently received confirmation that one of my constituents, with the support of my constituency office team, had been awarded more than £2,000 in benefits that had been wrongly…22 Jul 2019HANSARDSituation in the GulfThe United Kingdom is home to somewhere between 50,000 and 70,000 Iranian nationals and their immediate families, many of whom are here because of their opposition to either the…22 Jul 2019HANSARDPolice Surveillance of JournalistsThe problem is that the police and security services were given these powers to allow them to prevent and detect serious crime, but there is absolutely no suggestion that those…17 Jul 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsAbsolutely, Mr Speaker. Whose interests were served by tearing Lizanne Zietsman away from her family, business and community, and deporting her against the wishes of the entire…15 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS Pensions: TaxationI place on record the fact that I am married to a GP, although she is unlikely to be affected by the changes. I recently attended a briefing for Fife’s elected representatives at…08 Jul 2019HANSARDG20 and Leadership of EU InstitutionsWhile we may be concerned at the lack of complete openness and democracy in the appointment of top jobs in the European Union, we are about to get a Prime Minister foisted on us…03 Jul 2019HANSARDNo Deal: PreparednessGiven that the Brexit Secretary who negotiated the last deal was so disgusted with it that he resigned in protest, I think it is a bit much to blame anyone on this side of the…27 Jun 2019