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Scotland Bill

The Government Chief Whip says that I like interventions. It was I who was speaking and she who intervened. This is the way that we have been treated all the way through the Bill. Over the weekend, I found out that we were going to have an extra week of recess. In that week we could have carried out proper consideration of the Bill. As was pointed out earlier, we did not have the proper time between Committee and Report. We are being treated abominably and it is absolutely disgraceful. The Government Chief Whip should realise that it is not the Opposition's responsibility to programme business in this House; it is the Government's responsibility and it is her responsibility, and she should take the blame as well as the credit.