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HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI will give way one last time.09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI have great respect for the Minister, but he talks about the EU deal not covering human rights. We are all covered by the European convention on human rights, but that umbrella…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementIt would be remiss of me not to give way to the hon. and learned Gentleman.09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementThe hon. and learned Member for North Antrim (Jim Allister) says that I have not mentioned that, but I had just started. Of course, he represents a part of the United Kingdom that…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementI did say that the previous intervention would be my last, but I really ought to give way to the Minister.09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeI thank the Minister for his statement—it was clearly preferable being here than at the reception that the Prime Minister is hosting for Scottish Labour MPs and MSPs later on. I…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-India Free Trade AgreementThe hon. Member is right. The UK as a second-tier power has left itself poorer, as the Minister, to his credit, has acknowledged, as did the hon. Member for Witney (Charlie…09 Feb 2026HANSARD SudanI thank the Foreign Secretary for her statement, for her travel and for the prominence that she has given to this issue. May I thank her especially for her engagement with the…05 Feb 2026HANSARDScottish Affairs Committee in 2024-25 and Industrial TransitionI thank the Committee for its work on this issue. The hon. Member rightly raised the point about skills. Will she tell us about the impact of the energy profits levy on some of…05 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonThe hon. Member will be aware that, earlier on today, the Prime Minister made the concession from the Dispatch Box that he knew. Is this not a question of trust in the Prime…04 Feb 2026HANSARDLord MandelsonI have raised the point about the Prime Minister, but there is a broader point here. Lord Mandelson was appointed to the Lords. For 115 years, Labour has been promising to get rid…04 Feb 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. An opinion poll in the Sunday Herald at the weekend showed that three quarters of Scots would vote to join the European Union. They get that leaving the EU was a disaster a…20 Jan 2026HANSARD UkraineI associate myself with the Minister’s comments, for which I thank him. I have some significant and substantive questions to ask, but I will reflect for a moment on the human side…14 Jan 2026HANSARDEconomic GrowthI wish the Secretary of State the best for 2026. I am glad he caught “The Traitors”, because I am so sorry to have heard the language used about Scottish Labour MPs by Labour MPs…14 Jan 2026HANSARD UkraineAccountability is so important, as I know the hon. Gentleman and other Members agree. On the local element, will the Minister say something about the 100-year agreement? I know…14 Jan 2026HANSARDEconomic GrowthI would take the Secretary of State a little bit more seriously if so many Labour MPs had not lost the Whip for backing our vote on tackling the two-child cap. The Scottish child…14 Jan 2026HANSARD IranIran is a remarkable country and its people are remarkable, but I agree with the Foreign Secretary that the actions of the Iranian regime are no aberration. She was absolutely…13 Jan 2026HANSARD UK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsI am afraid to say that it is almost 30 years since I made the transformative journey from Dundee to Antwerp for my Erasmus experience. I thank the Minister, because there is some…17 Dec 2025HANSARD Electoral ResilienceMembers of this House, including me, who have been targeted by Russia will be particularly horrified by the crimes of Reform UK’s former Wales leader. I am pleased that Philip…16 Dec 2025HANSARDSt Andrew’s Day and Scottish AffairsThe hon. Gentleman always makes an entertaining speech. He quoted Edwin Morgan, who, after writing that poem, donated a significant sum of money to the SNP. I just thought that…11 Dec 2025