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Treasury and Work and Pensions

My hon. Friend speaks eloquently and forcefully about his part of the country, and I wish to make a point about Scotland. On the day of the Queen’s Speech, anyone who was not careful when watching the television might have stumbled across the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond) proclaiming that the Queen’s Speech did nothing whatever for Scotland. As a Scottish MP I find that a bit puzzling, and I should take this opportunity to say that I was also saddened by the earlier scathing remarks about Dundee of the hon. Member for Angus (Mr. Weir), which will be heard not only by the people of Dundee but by his party colleague, the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie). Does my hon. Friend however agree that reform of the Child Support Agency and of the pension system to ensure good and adequate pension provision for the next 40 years and other crucial reforms amount to a lot being done for Scotland, and does he further agree that Scots will—