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Debate on bill on Thursday, 26 April 2012, in the House of Commons, led by David Mundell.

Scotland Bill

Scotland Bill. Consideration of Lords amendments. Lords amendments agreed to.

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Parliamentary proceeding
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543 c1132-79 
Session
2010-12
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Scotland Office
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Lords amendments
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Programme motions
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Proceeding contributions
David Mundell | 543 c1178 (Link to this contribution) Before the debate becomes any more raucous, I should recognise that this is possibly my final opport...
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Speaker | 543 c1178 (Link to this contribution) Order. Three strikes and you're out.
Russell Brown | 543 c1177 (Link to this contribution) What discussions were held when it was decided that it would be the right thing to devolve the power...
David Mundell | 543 c1177 (Link to this contribution) It will obviously be for the Scottish Government to advise on changes to signage, among other things...
Ian Davidson | 543 c1178 (Link to this contribution) Given that speed is a product of both distance and time, has there been any further submission from ...
David Mundell | 543 c1177-8 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Gentlemen's concerns about traffic speeds in our part of Scotland, Dumfries and Gal...
Ian Davidson | 543 c1176-7 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the Scottish Government want these powers in order to keep the speed limits ...
David Mundell | 543 c1176 (Link to this contribution) I am responsible for many things, but I am not responsible for the Scottish Government acting in a s...
Mark Lazarowicz | 543 c1177 (Link to this contribution) These are sensible measures and I am sure that Scottish Governments of whatever political colour wil...
David Mundell | 543 c1177 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with the hon. Gentleman. I took part in a radio programme with a member of the Sco...
Anne McGuire | 543 c1179 (Link to this contribution) I add my support for the Lords amendment. It makes sense. We have to realise that drivers of all kin...
Iain Stewart | 543 c1178-9 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to support this group of Lords amendments and, indeed, the provisions in the Bill. ...
William Bain | 543 c1178 (Link to this contribution) Lords amendments 12 to 16 would amend clauses 25 and 26 to devolve completely to the Scottish Parlia...
David Mundell | 543 c1171-2 (Link to this contribution) There has been much debate about the role of the Lord Advocate and the Supreme Court in Scottish cri...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1172 (Link to this contribution) I welcome that part of the group, but will the Minister make it absolutely clear—I believe he is jus...
David Mundell | 543 c1172 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my right hon. and learned Friend. The remarks made by the First Minister abo...
Ian Davidson | 543 c1172 (Link to this contribution) Just for clarification, were the First Minister's comments successful, in that his criticisms result...
David Mundell | 543 c1172 (Link to this contribution) On this occasion, I am able to welcome the hon. Gentleman's welcome. The provisions in the Bill, if ...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 543 c1172 (Link to this contribution) Many of us in the House would wish to associate ourselves with the very generous and entirely approp...
David Mundell | 543 c1173 (Link to this contribution) No. The changes being introduced today are a result of a process that was instigated by the Advocate...
David Mundell | 543 c1172-3 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to make it clear to the hon. Gentleman that views expressed by the First Minister about t...
Ian Davidson | 543 c1173 (Link to this contribution) Leaving aside the vehemence of the language used by the First Minister, was the substance of his com...
William Bain | 543 c1173-5 (Link to this contribution) First, let me associate the official Opposition with the Minister's remarks about Paul McBride. I al...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 543 c1175 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, as I deduced that he was about to conclude. Is i...
William Bain | 543 c1175 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the right hon. and learned Gentleman. One of the strengths of the devolution s...
David Mundell | 543 c1176 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 12.
Speaker | 543 c1176 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to consider Lords amendments 13 to 16.
David Mundell | 543 c1176 (Link to this contribution) Clause 25 allowed the Scottish Ministers to determine the national speed limit on roads in Scotland ...
Ian Davidson | 543 c1176 (Link to this contribution) Will there be any restrictions under the Bill on the speed with which Scottish Government Ministers ...
David Mundell | 543 c1176 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, in the devolution of powers such as speed limits, which are devolved in...
Ian Davidson | 543 c1165 (Link to this contribution) May I make the same apology to the House as I made to you earlier, Madam Deputy Speaker, for having ...
Michael Moore | 543 c1165 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the difficulties to which the hon. Gentleman referred are sorted out quickly. I thank hi...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1164 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady. I listened very carefully to what she said earlier, and picked...
Mike Crockart | 543 c1164-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the amendments to the Scotland Bill, which—I am proud to say—was brought forward at the ea...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1166 (Link to this contribution) I am very disappointed that the hon. Lady should interpret my kind and pleasant comments in such a w...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 543 c1166-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a matter of fact that, since the sad passing of my mother, nobody in Scotland listens to me at...
Fiona Bruce | 543 c1166 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend was referring to a comment made following my speech, I must tell her that I took i...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 543 c1166 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I am being cynical about the hon. Gentleman's motives; I have listened to him speaking in th...
Ian Davidson | 543 c1166 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his good wishes. Witnesses have told me that someone was seen run...
David Mundell | 543 c1169 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I shall respond specifically to the points raised by my hon. Friend the...
Lindsay Roy | 543 c1169 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister confirm that the same Bruce Crawford did not describe the Bill as a poison pill, a ...
David Mundell | 543 c1169-70 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman's recollection of what Mr Crawford may have said about the Bill on previ...
David Mundell | 543 c1170 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 3.
David Mowat | 543 c1167-9 (Link to this contribution) To paraphrase my hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border (Rory Stewart), I rise with passi...
Speaker | 543 c1171 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to take Lords amendments 19 to 25.
Speaker | 543 c1170 (Link to this contribution) With this we may take Lords amendment 4.
David Mundell | 543 c1170 (Link to this contribution) Lords amendment 3 would remove clause 10, and Lords amendment 4 would replace it with a new clause m...
William Bain | 543 c1170-1 (Link to this contribution) Lords amendment 3 removes clause 10, and Lords amendment 4 inserts a new clause before clause 11 on ...
David Mundell | 543 c1171 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 9.
Bob Stewart | 543 c1134 (Link to this contribution) I do not really like the Bill being called modest by the Scottish National party when the Office for...
David Mundell | 543 c1134-5 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. This is a significant measure which will lead to the lar...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1135 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will concede, I hope, that notwithstanding this change there is no material difference ...
David Mundell | 543 c1135 (Link to this contribution) The amendment changes the title. If the hon. Gentleman is alluding to whether the Scottish Governmen...
Frank Roy | 543 c1135 (Link to this contribution) Are any costs associated with the name change?
David Mundell | 543 c1135 (Link to this contribution) As far as I am aware, no costs are associated with changing the name from that proposed in the origi...
Anas Sarwar | 543 c1135 (Link to this contribution) Will the title of First Minister be changed to ““Secretary of State for Rupert Murdoch””?
William Bain | 543 c1136 (Link to this contribution) As we begin debating the Lords amendments, I hope the House will consider it appropriate for the Opp...
David Mundell | 543 c1135-6 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that that is a matter on which the hon. Gentleman and many others hold a view but on which...
Michael Moore | 543 c1136 (Link to this contribution) I would like to pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman, his colleague the shadow Secretary of State, the ...
Ian Murray | 543 c1136-7 (Link to this contribution) Lots of adjectives have been attached to the word ““devo”” with regards to the debate about the cons...
Frank Roy | 543 c1136 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend confirm that, in effect, this really is devo-max?
William Bain | 543 c1136 (Link to this contribution) It is intriguing. We have several descriptions: ““indy-lite””, ““devo-plus””, ““devo-max””. Various ...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1137 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1137 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's introductory remarks are interesting. Can we take it, given that he is speaking...
William Bain | 543 c1137 (Link to this contribution) I was about to leave this point, but I will give way.
Speaker | 543 c1137 (Link to this contribution) Order. I might be able to help. I know that Mr Bain will come straight back to the amendments and th...
David Mundell | 543 c1133 (Link to this contribution) I also remember the occasion on which the Scottish National party voted against the Bill, as we will...
David Mundell | 543 c1133 (Link to this contribution) Along with the redoubtable Wendy Alexander, Annabel Goldie, Lord Browne of Ladyton, Lord Stephen and...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1133 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Minister wants to pretend that this Bill is incredibly important, but in fact it is ...
David Mundell | 543 c1133 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.
Speaker | 543 c1133 (Link to this contribution) With this we may take Lords amendments 7, 8, 10 and 11.
David Mundell | 543 c1134 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the SNP at Westminster group leader's substitute will recognise that when this Bill w...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1134 (Link to this contribution) Instead of misrepresenting me, why does not the junior Minister understand that the only reason the ...
David Mundell | 543 c1134 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady may recall that during previous consideration of the Bill, I identified London S...
Anne McGuire | 543 c1134 (Link to this contribution) Except sometimes the right hand of the Scottish National party does not know what the left hand is d...
Iain Stewart | 543 c1154 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention but I do not think that you would be terribly ...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1154 (Link to this contribution) I want to say only a few words about this group of amendments. They are very welcome, particularly t...
David Mundell | 543 c1154 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that he also tabled an amendment at an earlier stage to remove the r...
Iain Stewart | 543 c1152-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point, as the essence of the Bill is that it creates additiona...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1153 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman with keen interest and I very much approve of the tone of his r...
Iain Stewart | 543 c1153 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I always try to be reasonable and measure...
David Mowat | 543 c1154 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend says, there a change has been made at the last moment to what is called the no-det...
Michael Moore | 543 c1155 (Link to this contribution) Allow me to be equally generous to the hon. Gentleman in accepting the points that he has made. From...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1154-5 (Link to this contribution) Indeed it does. We can safely say that we have no territorial claims on Antarctica. This is a Scotla...
Rory Stewart | 543 c1155-6 (Link to this contribution) It seems a little dry to focus on Lords amendment 18 with reference to clause 37, but it is a centra...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1155 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State. Irrespective of the final mechanism, which was a subject of some neg...
Rory Stewart | 543 c1157 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman very much indeed. Having been a little rhetorical, I will return to the ...
Ian Murray | 543 c1157-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Rory Stewart), who has ...
Rory Stewart | 543 c1156-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am happy for us to discuss Scottish history later. We are discus...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1156 (Link to this contribution) I am desperately looking forward to the hon. Gentleman explaining when a Viking decided to leave Den...
Speaker | 543 c1156 (Link to this contribution) Order. Actually, I would not like the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Rory Stewart) to expla...
Fiona Bruce | 543 c1159-62 (Link to this contribution) Having listened to the positive speeches that have been made about Lords amendment 18, I wonder whet...
Ian Murray | 543 c1159 (Link to this contribution) I will be coming back to the report this very second, because it is about transparency, and what we ...
Speaker | 543 c1159 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have given the hon. Gentleman some latitude, but I am sure that he is coming back to the de...
Ian Murray | 543 c1158-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for raising one of the key points on why we need transparency....
Tom Clarke | 543 c1158 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he agree that there is a strong case for transpar...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1162 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce). The Scottish people are alwa...
Speaker | 543 c1162 (Link to this contribution) Order. I would like both the Minister and the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wisha...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1162 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I want to speak to the Lords amendments and discuss where t...
Speaker | 543 c1162 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps I did not make myself abundantly clear, Mr Wishart, so I shall do it now. If you wish...
Speaker | 543 c1163 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are not on Third Reading for the hon. Gentleman to reflect on the entire debates on the Bi...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1163 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was just making the point that there was very little in the way o...
Speaker | 543 c1163 (Link to this contribution) I have not heard the hon. Gentleman mention health professionals yet, except on that point. If it is...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1163 (Link to this contribution) I seek your guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is there not an amendment about health professionals? Ca...
David Mundell | 543 c1163 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman did not hear what I said earlier. The Government reached this position be...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1163 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. We have effectively ensured that there will no longer be re-re...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1163 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the right hon. Lady even though she did not give way to me.
Anne McGuire | 543 c1163-4 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that I pre-empted this debate by speaking to the earlier group of amendments, but for t...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1163 (Link to this contribution) That sort of clarifies things, but I do not understand why the Minister did not accept the amendment...
Anne McGuire | 543 c1142 (Link to this contribution) I take your advice, Mr Deputy Speaker. If the amendment is accepted—
Anne McGuire | 543 c1141-2 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate I am a blushing violet sitting here and you obviously did not quite see me, Mr Deputy S...
Speaker | 543 c1142 (Link to this contribution) Order. The amendment refers only to leaving something out, which is all we are effectively debating....
Ian Murray | 543 c1142 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is creating an important narrative for the link between the national health ser...
Chris Bryant | 543 c1143 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Yesterday afternoon, my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford...
Anne McGuire | 543 c1142 (Link to this contribution) I think that Mr Deputy Speaker wants us to move the business on, and I do not wish to trespass furth...
Speaker | 543 c1143 (Link to this contribution) First, I cannot judge something that has not happened. We do not know whether what the hon. Member m...
Speaker | 543 c1144 (Link to this contribution) With this we may take Lords amendments 5, 6, 17, 18 and 26.
David Mundell | 543 c1144 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 2.
David Mundell | 543 c1144 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I shall not use the same tone as the hon. Gentleman, although I think ...
Speaker | 543 c1144 (Link to this contribution) Order. I would obviously not allow the Opposition Front-Bench team to respond. I am sure that, as we...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1144 (Link to this contribution) The Minister's memory is appalling. I intervened on the Labour Front-Bench spokesman to ask the Labo...
Speaker | 543 c1143 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that everything is possible.
Anne McGuire | 543 c1143 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I want to apologise to the House. As I was speaking, I was l...
Frank Roy | 543 c1146 (Link to this contribution) Does this not prove that some things should be done on a UK-wide basis rather than on the basis of a...
David Mundell | 543 c1144-6 (Link to this contribution) As I have already explained, on 21 March the Government announced a package of measures in the Bill,...
David Mundell | 543 c1146 (Link to this contribution) During consideration of the Bill in the House of Commons and by the Committees of the Scottish Parli...
David Mundell | 543 c1146-7 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, the Scottish Government have given assurances that although there will not be a r...
Frank Roy | 543 c1146 (Link to this contribution) Presumably the SNP agrees with that.
David Mundell | 543 c1147 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman forgets that he and his colleagues moved an amendment to remove the clause re-res...
David Mundell | 543 c1147 (Link to this contribution) Again, I would not want the hon. Gentleman to mislead the House. The regulation of activities in Ant...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1147 (Link to this contribution) To ensure that the Minister does not mischaracterise the approach of the Scottish Government, let me...
David Mundell | 543 c1148 (Link to this contribution) This re-reservation—which some Members on the Opposition Benches sought to remove at an earlier stag...
Speaker | 543 c1147 (Link to this contribution) And I know that no Member would mislead this House.
William Bain | 543 c1148-9 (Link to this contribution) This group of amendments is a result of agreement between the UK and Scottish Governments on the leg...
Fiona O'Donnell | 543 c1150 (Link to this contribution) The money derived from the landfill tax is currently ring-fenced in the UK, bringing back direct env...
William Bain | 543 c1150 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a pertinent point, because although we hear demands for powers made by certain...
William Bain | 543 c1150 (Link to this contribution) Let me, as a member of the Scottish Labour party, tell a member of the London Scottish National part...
Stewart Hosie | 543 c1150 (Link to this contribution) As we are debating this matter, can we have confirmation that the British Labour party is now comple...
William Bain | 543 c1150 (Link to this contribution) The other implication of devolving corporation tax for it to be reduced to the levels that apply in ...
Ian Murray | 543 c1150 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is being incredibly generous in giving way again. Is it not the case that the setting...
Frank Roy | 543 c1151 (Link to this contribution) Presumably the safeguards that my hon. Friend just spoke about will not be there if Scotland separat...
William Bain | 543 c1151 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. The hon. Lady tempts me to make future tax policy. However, the point ...
Speaker | 543 c1151 (Link to this contribution) Order. The length of the hon. Lady's intervention is stretching even my patience a little. We are no...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 543 c1151 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to what the hon. Gentleman is saying about this complicated subject. He quo...
Iain Stewart | 543 c1152 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this group. I will speak specifically to Lords amendme...
John Stevenson | 543 c1152 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that producing such a report will bring greater openness and transparency ...
William Bain | 543 c1151-2 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, one of the benefits of being part of the United Kingdom is that we enjoy a fiscal union in w...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1140 (Link to this contribution) To be fair, this is a much better Bill now than it was a year ago. All the damaging economic powers ...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1140 (Link to this contribution) What the Scottish people are hearing is a compelling case for Scottish independence, and the questio...
Frank Roy | 543 c1140 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman tell the House what made the Bill a bad Bill, and what it is that now makes ...
Speaker | 543 c1139 (Link to this contribution) There are some benefits from doing so.
Pete Wishart | 543 c1139 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for her intervention. As always in these debates, she makes a co...
Mark Lazarowicz | 543 c1139-40 (Link to this contribution) I am genuinely sorry that the hon. Gentleman is not more positive in welcoming the Bill, but his sup...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1141 (Link to this contribution) One of the first things we did when we came into government, back in 2007, was to ensure that we wer...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1140 (Link to this contribution) I have a choice between the two Front Benches. I will give way to the Minister first.
David Mundell | 543 c1140 (Link to this contribution) We would not want the hon. Gentleman to mislead the House. The UK Government have not agreed with th...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1140 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for clarifying that. It is good that he agrees with the Scottish Gover...
David Mowat | 543 c1140 (Link to this contribution) I think I heard the hon. Gentleman say a few moments ago that this version of the Bill would save th...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1141 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman heard my exchange with the Minister, but this is to do with...
Frank Roy | 543 c1141 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that his party voted for the Scotland Act 1998, which introduced the...
Speaker | 543 c1139 (Link to this contribution) I am being very generous to the hon. Gentleman, and I am giving him that chance.
Bob Stewart | 543 c1139 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I will—[Hon. Members: ““Oh!””] Yes, I certainly will withdraw it!
Bob Stewart | 543 c1139 (Link to this contribution) With crawlingness, I withdraw my remark. I shall sit down at this point.
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 543 c1138 (Link to this contribution) I am sure, Mr Deputy Speaker, that you will agree that it is relevant to say that the amendment matt...
Speaker | 543 c1138 (Link to this contribution) The southern Scottish seat of Epping Forest has been mentioned, but it is not relevant to this group...
Bob Stewart | 543 c1138 (Link to this contribution) All the amendments are very acceptable to me and to the other Stewarts in the House.
Bob Stewart | 543 c1138 (Link to this contribution) It would be horrific if that were to happen. The Opposition and the Conservatives are all Unionists ...
Speaker | 543 c1139 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is immediately going to withdraw that remark.
Bob Stewart | 543 c1138 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. The amendments will certainly be welcomed by the Stewart Society, whic...
Frank Roy | 543 c1138 (Link to this contribution) Would it not be a great shame if all these amendments were to fall because, for some bizarre reason,...
Speaker | 543 c1138 (Link to this contribution) Order. I know, Mr Stewart, that you will come to the amendments immediately, rather than touring Sco...
Bob Stewart | 543 c1138 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me, Mr Deputy Speaker. I was in total shock. I fell over. I speak as someone who sounds lik...
Speaker | 543 c1137 (Link to this contribution) Order. If the hon. Gentleman wishes me to call someone else, I can do, but I am sure he is happy to ...
Bob Stewart | 543 c1137 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am surprised to be called so early. [Laughter.]
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 543 c1173 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will recall that the attitude taken, to which both of us have referred, was to suggest ...
David Mundell | 543 c1173 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his comments. The proposals that form part of these ame...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1142 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Pete Wishart | 543 c1147 (Link to this contribution) If it is not a one-way street, which powers are now coming back to this House apart from those on An...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1139 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Beckenham (Bob Stewart), and it is a pity that ...
John Stevenson | 543 c1176 (Link to this contribution) Although I fully support the Bill and what we are trying to achieve by devolving power to the Scotti...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 543 c1166 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to Lords amendment 18, which I thoroughly support, like everyone else who has spoken...
William Bain | 543 c1136 (Link to this contribution) I heartily agree with the Secretary of State. The Bill is good for democracy in decentralising cert...
William Bain | 543 c1137 (Link to this contribution) That is a very interesting point put with typical style by my hon. Friend. As a party that first su...
William Bain | 543 c1137 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that if the hon. Gentleman wishes to make that intervention again when we discuss the impl...
Frank Roy | 543 c1157 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman spoke of a possible history debate with the hon. Member for Dundee East (Stewart ...
David Mundell | 543 c1162 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that, unlike the Scottish National party, Lord Forsyth achieved ex...
David Mundell | 543 c1143-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall make a few points on the issues pertaining to this group of amendments. I can assure the rig...
Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 543 c1139 (Link to this contribution) I fail to understand how the hon. Gentleman can find it unexciting or irrelevant that Members of the...
Pete Wishart | 543 c1141 (Link to this contribution) I have just about finished my speech, if the hon. Gentleman does not mind. I have had enough of Labo...
Speaker | 543 c1141 (Link to this contribution) Minister, do you wish to speak—[Interruption.] I am sorry; I call Anne McGuire.
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Devolved matters Appeals Corporation tax Crown lands and estates Devolution Antarctic Borrowing Block grant Health services Elections EU law Income tax Legislative competence Excise duties Insolvency Health professions Legislation Landfill tax Powers Lord Advocate Public finance Scotland Regulation Scottish Parliament Taxation Speed limits Tax rates and bands Supreme Court Scottish Executive Stamp duty land tax Advocate General for Scotland High Court Scottish Government Legislative consent motions
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