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AMENDMENT OF THE LAW

I agreed with some of what was said by the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie), as he would expect—he is a learned Member when it comes to topics of this kind. However, I must cavil at his quibble over the current Chancellor of the Exchequer, who in round terms has been in charge for 40 of the 59 quarters to which he referred. He said that for four of those quarters—I do not know whether this is true, but I take his word for it—economic growth in Scotland had stuttered. He criticised the Chancellor for a 90 per cent. hit rate; I think that that is pretty good going.