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HANSARD HMS DasherI am grateful to the Minister for giving way and I am very loth to introduce any note of disharmony tonight, but is he aware that there are very, very strong reports from a number…27 Mar 2023HANSARDPost Office NetworkIn an hour or two we will hear the latest update on the Horizon compensation scheme. Has the Minister made an assessment of how much damage that scandal has done and is continuing…23 Mar 2023HANSARDPost Office NetworkThank you, Mr Speaker, and may I wish Ramadan Mubarak to all those who today mark the beginning of the holiest period in the Islamic year? The Minister will be aware that the…23 Mar 2023HANSARDDraft Economic Crime (Anti-Money Laundering) Levy (Amendment) Regulations 2023For clarification, the people drafting the legislation are having to do it at pace because they have been lumbered with 4,500 bits of legislation that they would not have had to…21 Mar 2023HANSARDDraft Economic Crime (Anti-Money Laundering) Levy (Amendment) Regulations 2023The SNP certainly supports these measures; our concern is that they could have been in place a lot sooner. In some cases, they possibly do not go far enough. According to the note…21 Mar 2023HANSARDTaxationMay I be the first to defend the Chancellor, and indeed the shadow Chancellor, against any accusation of socialism? Can the Chancellor explain why the Cameronbridge distillery in…21 Mar 2023HANSARDDraft Economic Crime (Anti-Money Laundering) Levy (Amendment) Regulations 2023Could the Minister explain why all these amendments are being made now? Why were they not made when the original regulations were made last year?21 Mar 2023HANSARDThink-tanks: Charitable Status4. Whether she has had recent discussions with the Charity Commission on the potential impact of the charitable status of some think-tanks on the transparency, accountability and…09 Mar 2023HANSARDThink-tanks: Charitable StatusA number of think-tank charities do exactly what the Minister has suggested, and they gain plaudits from transparency campaigners for their willingness to be open about who funds…09 Mar 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseAt least 10 regional building societies are now known to have taken commission to refer their elderly and vulnerable customers to the Will Writing Company. That was ostensibly to…09 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt will not have escaped the Home Secretary’s notice that despite what I have no doubt have been the best efforts of her Government Whips, they have not found a single Member of…07 Mar 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhile people in Levenmouth certainly welcome the fact that the levelling-up process gave us some of our own money back again, can the Secretary of State identify a single measure…20 Feb 2023HANSARDBusinesses: Energy CostsI may have missed it, but I do not think the Minister even attempted to answer the question asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for Dundee East (Stewart Hosie) a wee while…07 Feb 2023HANSARDScotland Act 1998: Section 35 PowerPerhaps the Secretary of State could take some heat out of this argument by confirming a few matters of fact of which a lot of his colleagues seem to be unaware. Can he confirm…17 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesThank you, Sir Robert. I am pleased to begin summing up in this debate, and I commend the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) again for securing it and for her…11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living Increasesrose—11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living Increasesrose—11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesI am grateful to the Minister for finally giving way. I tactfully point out him that that he has seriously misrepresented the position of those of us on this side of the debate.…11 Jan 2023HANSARDFossil Fuels and Cost of Living IncreasesLike my hon. Friend the Member for Stirling (Alyn Smith), I congratulate the hon. Member on securing this debate. She is referring to the appallingly bad standard of insulation in…11 Jan 2023HANSARD Industrial ActionIn the five years I had the privilege of leading the third largest council in Scotland with a workforce of 20,000, we had our share of industrial disputes. Every single time the…10 Jan 2023