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Scotland Bill

Committee stage (fourth day). Clause 32 amendments, negatived on division (249 to 312) and (193 to 313). Clause 53, amendment negatived on division (253 to 315). Clauses 31-64 ordered to stand part. Bill, as amended, reported.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

598 cc60-144 

Session

2015-16

Department

Scotland Office

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
Scotland Bill 2015-16
Thursday, 28 May 2015
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Alistair Carmichael | 598 c62 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move amendment 23, in clause 31, page 30, line 34, leave out “may” and insert “must”.

David Crausby | 598 cc62-70 (Link to this contribution)

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Amendment 52, page 30, line 36, l...


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Alistair Carmichael | 598 c70 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome you back to the Chair, Mr Crausby.

We have an embarras de richesses in the range ...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c70 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman says that the operation of the Crown Estate is unsatisfactory and needs ...

Alistair Carmichael | 598 cc70-1 (Link to this contribution)

Four years ago, I was very much in favour of devolution to the communities: it was something on w...

Alex Salmond | 598 c71 (Link to this contribution)

I am fascinated by this lack of consensus in the last Government. Was the current Secretary of St...

Alistair Carmichael | 598 c71 (Link to this contribution)

I shall allow the Secretary of State to speak for himself when he has the opportunity to do so la...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c71 (Link to this contribution)

Would it not be a better approach to devolve to the islands? I see the Liberals are now ignoring ...

Alistair Carmichael | 598 cc71-3 (Link to this contribution)

I seek to build consensus today. It is unfortunate that the hon. Gentleman is not minded to do so...

Edward Leigh | 598 c73 (Link to this contribution)

I rise to speak to my new clause 66, on health and medicines, which reads:

“In Part 2 of Sc...

John Pugh | 598 c73 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that Northern Ireland already has some of the powers that he as...

Edward Leigh | 598 cc73-4 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, I was going to come to that point, which is important. I have obtained the help of the Libra...

Alex Salmond | 598 c74 (Link to this contribution)

I thought it might help the hon. Gentleman if I gave him a little bit of history. If I remember c...

Edward Leigh | 598 cc75-6 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for describing that bit of history. I understand that t...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c76 (Link to this contribution)

I rise to oppose or to provide a different perspective on the amendments tabled by the right hon....

Alistair Carmichael | 598 c76 (Link to this contribution)

I remind the hon. Gentleman that my amendment provides for agreement between the Scottish Governm...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c76 (Link to this contribution)

If the right hon. Gentleman wants the full input of the Scottish Parliament, why is he trying to ...

Alistair Carmichael | 598 c77 (Link to this contribution)

I remind the hon. Gentleman that the Western Isles Council, the Comhairle themselves, were urging...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c77 (Link to this contribution)

Absolutely, and when the right hon. Gentleman was in government and he was urged to do this, what...

Alistair Carmichael | 598 c77 (Link to this contribution)

If the hon. Gentleman speaks to his colleagues in local government—I know he does not always do s...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c77 (Link to this contribution)

I know what they wanted, but it is clear from that answer that the right hon. Gentleman did not t...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 cc77-8 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Mr Crausby—[Interruption.] I did not hear that interruption by the hon. Member for Na ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c78 (Link to this contribution)

It is an honour to give way to the right hon. Member for Gordon (Alex Salmond).

Alex Salmond | 598 c78 (Link to this contribution)

I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman is familiar with the phrase “the land belongs to the people”....

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c78 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful for the right hon. Gentleman’s characteristically helpful intervention. What w...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c78 (Link to this contribution)

And it is, of course, an even greater honour to give way to the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an ...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 cc78-9 (Link to this contribution)

I am also grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who has described giving way to the hon. Member for Na ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c79 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman really cannot have it both ways. He teased the right hon. Member for Orkney an...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c79 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his consistency, and, similarly, I congratulate myself on mi...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c79 (Link to this contribution)

The problem with that view is that it does not respect the rights of property. The Crown is entit...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c79 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. I am also grateful to my hon. Frie...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c79 (Link to this contribution)

I find the concept of sovereignty coming from the people very attractive. I do not dispute the co...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c80 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. He is being very generous, as are you, ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c80 (Link to this contribution)

I am well aware of the difference of terminology in relation to Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c80 (Link to this contribution)

The Queen of England. The two were different, in a sense, and there is a conception of popular so...

George Kerevan | 598 c80 (Link to this contribution)

I am surprised that such an ardent and professional monarchist as the hon. Gentleman is unaware t...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c80 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman has been more helpful to me than he may have realised. I think that the symbol...

Dominic Grieve | 598 c80 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is clearly right. The Act of Union created the Crown of the United Kingdom of Grea...

Dominic Grieve | 598 c81 (Link to this contribution)

The Union of the Crowns happened 100 years before, but in my view it is clear that the constituti...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c81 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend, who I think is absolutely spot on. The indivis...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c81 (Link to this contribution)

Of course I give way to the hon. Gentleman.

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c81 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his incredible generosity. He said that the Crown propert...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c81 (Link to this contribution)

My assumption is that they were devolved to the Government of the Republic of Ireland, which is a...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c81 (Link to this contribution)

I think that the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. What today’s debate is about is whether the ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c82 (Link to this contribution)

I do not think that the hon. Gentleman —I was about to say “my hon. Friend”—is bold enough. What ...

Alex Salmond | 598 c82 (Link to this contribution)

I am able to help the hon. Gentleman with a precedent. It turns out that in 1923 the Crown Estate...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c82 (Link to this contribution)

I am terribly sorry to say that we do not have an exact precedent. We have exactly the wrong prec...

Roger Mullin | 598 c82 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman will be aware that his amendment is completely at odds with section 1(2) of th...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 cc82-3 (Link to this contribution)

No, all my amendment is seeking to do is ensure that at the beginning of a new reign the Crown Es...

Drew Hendry | 598 c83 (Link to this contribution)

The Crown Estate is public land and its commissioners are a statutory corporation, and the Crown ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c83 (Link to this contribution)

No, I do not agree. I enjoyed participated in the Sovereign Grant Act debates, when I thought Her...

Drew Hendry | 598 c83 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman not agree, however, that, as the Chancellor himself has said, there are o...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c83 (Link to this contribution)

The Crown Estate was a brilliant way of settling the issue. It is of course just one way, and we ...

Philippa Whitford | 598 c83 (Link to this contribution)

Is it not the case that the reduction in subsidies to onshore wind and other renewable energies i...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c83 (Link to this contribution)

Hon. Members may have got the impression that I am a monarchist; I think there are few things mor...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c84 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is more of a monarchist than I am.

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c84 (Link to this contribution)

I certainly am, it would seem, and I can hear the timbers in Buckingham palace quivering as we sp...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c84 (Link to this contribution)

One has to be careful of onshore wind turbines if one is at risk of losing one’s head; I believe ...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c84 (Link to this contribution)

Everybody subsidises the Government through their taxes, and we in Scotland particularly subsidis...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c84 (Link to this contribution)

I wish Doris Day many happy returns, albeit somewhat belatedly, but the hon. Gentleman is not rig...

Edward Leigh | 598 c84 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is giving a very fine Tory speech, not one from the Whiggish camp as we have been ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c85 (Link to this contribution)

I think that that is a terrible Jacobean, rather than Jacobite suggestion. Although this is not i...

Jack Dromey | 598 cc85-6 (Link to this contribution)

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Downton Abbey. I want to speak on employmen...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c86 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his work in that period in Scotland; we have spoken about it priva...

Jack Dromey | 598 cc86-7 (Link to this contribution)

Two unions saved Rosyth. The first was the campaign led by the TGWU that united the whole of Scot...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c87 (Link to this contribution)

I do not fully recognise the rosy picture that the hon. Gentleman is painting of that unity. If w...

Jack Dromey | 598 c87 (Link to this contribution)

I used a not dissimilar argument when it came to the lobbying on where the aircraft carriers woul...

Chris Stephens | 598 c87 (Link to this contribution)

I respect the hon. Gentleman’s trade union activity. On pay bargaining, though, I fear that he is...

Jack Dromey | 598 c88 (Link to this contribution)

Some Scottish national agreements exist alongside agreements covering the rest of the UK, but is ...

Alex Salmond | 598 c88 (Link to this contribution)

When I, as First Minister, negotiated a no compulsory redundancy agreement with the civil service...

Jack Dromey | 598 c88 (Link to this contribution)

In my trade union life, I frequently negotiated no compulsory redundancy agreements in a whole nu...

Chris Stephens | 598 c88 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman seems to be very concerned about pay discrepancies. What is his view of the Sc...

Jack Dromey | 598 c88 (Link to this contribution)

I shall come to exactly that point. New clause 63 in essence says, “Look before you leap.” I do n...

Dan Poulter | 598 c88 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is right that in some cases collective pay bargaining can bring benefits. We r...

Jack Dromey | 598 c88 (Link to this contribution)

That is exactly right. When the national framework, particularly for the national health service,...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c89 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman has been very kind in giving way. A few moments ago, he asked rhetorically whe...

Jack Dromey | 598 c89 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry, but the lesson for me from my whole history in the trade union movement has been that...

Philippa Whitford | 598 c89 (Link to this contribution)

The Scottish Government are recognised as a living wage employer. Does the hon. Gentleman not fee...

Jack Dromey | 598 c89 (Link to this contribution)

We have been acting on the living wage north and south of the border. I was a founder member of t...

Owen Thompson | 598 c89 (Link to this contribution)

I have listened intently to the hon. Gentleman’s résumé of the actions he has taken, but for how ...

Jack Dromey | 598 c89 (Link to this contribution)

Down south, together with workers from up north, we are working to drive the living wage. We are ...

Alex Cunningham | 598 c90 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford) mentioned the Scottish Government’s reputation...

Jack Dromey | 598 c90 (Link to this contribution)

Let me give an example of what really matters on the living wage. In Birmingham, it affected not ...

Dominic Grieve | 598 c90 (Link to this contribution)

I had not intended to speak in the debate, but the rather pejorative comments of the hon. Member ...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c90 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. and learned Gentleman referred to the proposal as a “novelty”. He might have misse...

Dominic Grieve | 598 cc91-2 (Link to this contribution)

I disagree with the right hon. Member for Gordon (Alex Salmond), because the creation of the Iris...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c92 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about the possibility of two Crown Estates, but there ...

Dominic Grieve | 598 c92 (Link to this contribution)

I certainly do not think that the Crown Estate is the glue that holds the United Kingdom together...

Edward Leigh | 598 c92 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. and learned Friend said that the Crown Estate was not the glue that held the United...

Dominic Grieve | 598 cc92-3 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments, but I do not want to be out of order, so I shal...

Alex Salmond | 598 cc93-4 (Link to this contribution)

What my hon. Friend the Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) provides is the Castlebay an...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 598 c94 (Link to this contribution)

The truth is that that did lead to a wonderful outpouring of monarchical fervour from Scotland. T...

Alex Salmond | 598 cc94-6 (Link to this contribution)

I was objecting not to the outpouring, but to the suggestion from the hon. Gentleman that he had ...

Drew Hendry | 598 cc96-8 (Link to this contribution)

I rise to support new clause 57. The transfer of the Crown Estate in Scotland and its assets was ...

Ian Murray | 598 c98 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. I was incredibly surprised to hear ...

Alex Salmond | 598 c98 (Link to this contribution)

That is indeed a mighty number of amendments. I am looking at the lack of support that the hon. G...

Ian Murray | 598 c98 (Link to this contribution)

Given the time limits that we have on this debate, I feel that we have just wasted 30 seconds thr...

Ian Murray | 598 c99 (Link to this contribution)

It does say here, because it is a speech, and that tends to be what happens. The right hon. Gentl...

Ian Murray | 598 c99 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way to the right hon. Gentleman, but first I say this: he is wasting the time of the ...

Alex Salmond | 598 c99 (Link to this contribution)

I was reading from the iPad because I was quoting from the Scottish Government document, “Empower...

Ian Murray | 598 cc99-101 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman asks me to withdraw my remark, but he asked to intervene before I made i...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c101 (Link to this contribution)

That is remarkable, because those matters are linked to countries’ constitutions. The limits are ...

Ian Murray | 598 c101 (Link to this contribution)

The next part of my speech offers an explanation of our opposition to devolving that particular i...

Ian Murray | 598 cc101-2 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is chuntering again. I will come on to the Northern Ireland issue. This is an ...

John Pugh | 598 c102 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman seriously think that the Scottish Parliament would disregard those sentim...

Ian Murray | 598 c102 (Link to this contribution)

I do not think that the Scottish Parliament would disregard them, but it is worth giving proper c...

Edward Leigh | 598 c102 (Link to this contribution)

May I have the hon. Gentleman’s view on the logic of allowing the Scottish Parliament to deal wit...

Ian Murray | 598 c102 (Link to this contribution)

That is the framework of the Scotland Act 1998.

Ian Murray | 598 c102 (Link to this contribution)

Well, devolution in a lot of instances is not logical, because—[Interruption.] I am answering the...

Philippa Whitford | 598 c102 (Link to this contribution)

Does not the hon. Gentleman think that this could be the start of that process? If there is an ag...

Ian Murray | 598 c103 (Link to this contribution)

There is a point of difference between us on how we interpret this issue. The 13 organisations th...

Chris Stephens | 598 c103 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman has quoted the TUC, but in various debates on the Bill he has quoted the STUC....

Ian Murray | 598 c103 (Link to this contribution)

I do not disagree with the hon. Gentleman: that is the STUC’s view. The TUC takes a slightly diff...

Ian Murray | 598 c104 (Link to this contribution)

We all want a race to the top, but we need to make sure that we are doing all these things proper...

Alan Brown | 598 c104 (Link to this contribution)

There is agreement across the Opposition Benches on making employment tribunals fairer and elimin...

Ian Murray | 598 c105 (Link to this contribution)

This amendment is about people paying a fee to enter the employment tribunal system. It would giv...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c105 (Link to this contribution)

I am anxious to know why Labour want control over the minimum wage in Scotland to be in the hands...

Ian Murray | 598 c106 (Link to this contribution)

The minimum wage in Scotland is not in the hands of the Tories; it is in the hands of the Low Pay...

Ian Murray | 598 c106 (Link to this contribution)

I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman realises this, but it is the Low Pay Commission that rec...

Callum McCaig | 598 c106 (Link to this contribution)

Low pay is one of the key problems of our age, as has been said. The minimum wage is in need of b...

Ian Murray | 598 c106 (Link to this contribution)

That is exactly what we want to see. We want the issue of poor wages across the United Kingdom to...

David Anderson | 598 c107 (Link to this contribution)

As one of the first people to give evidence to the Low Pay Commission in 1998, I think I have som...

Ian Murray | 598 c107 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is no bigger champion of workers’ rights, the national ...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c107 (Link to this contribution)

It is terrible that Labour sees the national minimum wage only as something to be undermined; it ...

Ian Murray | 598 c107 (Link to this contribution)

In fact, what the hon. Gentleman has just said is exactly what it says in new clause 63, which te...

Peter Grant | 598 cc107-8 (Link to this contribution)

Has the hon. Gentleman completely forgotten that some of the biggest advances in progressive soci...

Ian Murray | 598 c108 (Link to this contribution)

It is clear that the Scottish National party’s strategy is not to have a proper debate and discus...

Chris Stephens | 598 c108 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman has mentioned the views of the TUC and the BFAWU. Can he confirm that the two ...

Ian Murray | 598 c108 (Link to this contribution)

They have argued that, but the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and the GMB have ar...

David Amess | 598 c108 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I was about to say that five hon. Members were seeking to catch my eye, but now it seems t...

John Pugh | 598 cc108-9 (Link to this contribution)

I shall be brief, Sir David.

I wish to speak to new clause 56, which Members who survey it ...

Stewart Malcolm McDonald | 598 cc109-110 (Link to this contribution)

Scottish Members of Parliament have been sent a joint statement by the trade union community in S...

Angela Crawley | 598 cc110-1 (Link to this contribution)

It is worth noting early in the debate that so far we have had 100% participation of male speaker...

Brendan O'Hara | 598 c111 (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend share my dismay at Scottish Labour’s record in local government on equal pay,...

Angela Crawley | 598 cc111-2 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention—South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire and Glasgow cou...

Chris Stephens | 598 c112 (Link to this contribution)

I declare my membership of Unison and my trade union activity over the past 20 years. It was disa...

Wayne David | 598 c112 (Link to this contribution)

If the hon. Gentleman was concerned about workers throughout the United Kingdom, he would certain...

Chris Stephens | 598 cc112-4 (Link to this contribution)

I care about workers across the world, and I will be quoting from the Scottish Trades Union Congr...

Andy McDonald | 598 c114 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman’s amendments would devolve the pneumoconiosis legislation to Scotland. What is...

Chris Stephens | 598 c114 (Link to this contribution)

I will come back to that point.

Our approach is evidence based. The 30 detailed recommendat...

Alex Salmond | 598 c114 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend will be familiar with the Scottish Government’s action to reverse the House of Lor...

Chris Stephens | 598 cc114-5 (Link to this contribution)

I agree with my right hon. Friend, and he signed two memorandums of understanding with the STUC o...

Hannah Bardell | 598 c115 (Link to this contribution)

Two years ago this August, I sat in an emergency room when a helicopter went down off the coast o...

Chris Stephens | 598 c115 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend gives a first-hand account of why our health and safety laws should be devolved to...

David Mundell | 598 c116 (Link to this contribution)

I was pleased that in the Committee stage, we had an acknowledgement that we have had four full d...

Pete Wishart | 598 c116 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, we have debated the Bill, but no amendments have been accepted by the Government even though...

David Mundell | 598 c116 (Link to this contribution)

I am sure that sounded good when the hon. Gentleman wrote it down. It should not come as a surpri...

Ian Blackford | 598 c116 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State give way?

David Mundell | 598 c116 (Link to this contribution)

I just want to make this point.

This is the stage where the Bill should be held up for furt...

Ian Blackford | 598 c116 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State give way?

David Mundell | 598 cc116-7 (Link to this contribution)

If I could just finish my point.

I was interested to hear the rationale for the points made...

David Mundell | 598 c117 (Link to this contribution)

A number of proposed technical changes could clearly improve the Bill.

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 598 c117 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Mr Amess. The Secretary of State has named me and my constituency. Do I not ...

David Amess | 598 c117 (Link to this contribution)

That is not a point of order; that is a point of debate.

David Mundell | 598 cc117-8 (Link to this contribution)

There has been considerable discussion on the Bill. I want to concentrate on a few of the very im...

Ian Blackford | 598 c118 (Link to this contribution)

We keep hearing from the right hon. Gentleman and the Government about the respect that they have...

David Mundell | 598 c118 (Link to this contribution)

I think I did hear that contribution on at least one other day during the debate, so I understand...

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh | 598 c118 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State give way?

David Mundell | 598 c118 (Link to this contribution)

I will not, because I have very little time to comment on all the issues raised in this debate.

David Mundell | 598 cc118-9 (Link to this contribution)

Let me complete this point. Fort Kinnaird is held by an English limited partnership in which the ...

David Mundell | 598 cc119-120 (Link to this contribution)

If I may, I want to comment on the important amendments dealing with abortion. The Abortion Act 1...

Martin Docherty-Hughes | 598 c120 (Link to this contribution)

I am delighted that the Secretary of State has given way to me. Will he go back to the matter of ...

John Bercow | 598 cc120-131 (Link to this contribution)

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Clauses 47 and 48 stand part.

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Andrea Leadsom | 598 c131 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Sir David. It is a great pleasure to be introducing these clauses. Clauses 46 and 47 d...

David Amess | 598 c131 (Link to this contribution)

Order. Members owe the Minister the courtesy of leaving the Chamber quietly.

Andrea Leadsom | 598 cc131-2 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Sir David.

Clauses 46 and 47 deliver the Smith commission agreement and provide ...

Wayne David | 598 cc132-4 (Link to this contribution)

Before speaking to amendments 157 and 158 to clause 49, I would like to comment on clauses 50 and...

Philippa Whitford | 598 c134 (Link to this contribution)

In fact, the Scottish Government did not have the power to choose to give that franchise to a pub...

Wayne David | 598 c134 (Link to this contribution)

I will come to that, because it is an entirely predictable response from the SNP.

It is dif...

Philippa Whitford | 598 c134 (Link to this contribution)

The Scottish Government have put a break in the franchise so that if we are lucky enough to have ...

Wayne David | 598 cc134-5 (Link to this contribution)

I am glad that the SNP accepts the point I am making.

It would have been better if, instead...

Graham Allen | 598 c135 (Link to this contribution)

Before I deal with the amendments and new clauses in my name, I should like to address a few word...

Drew Hendry | 598 c135 (Link to this contribution)

As my colleagues have said, the principle of subsidiarity should not stop at local authorities. D...

Graham Allen | 598 c135 (Link to this contribution)

I do not wish to be unkind to the hon. Gentleman, but subsidiarity is not stopping at local gover...

Drew Hendry | 598 c135 (Link to this contribution)

Has the hon. Gentleman studied the document by the Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy in...

David Amess | 598 c136 (Link to this contribution)

Order. Before the hon. Member for Nottingham North (Mr Allen) responds to that intervention, I wo...

Graham Allen | 598 c136 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew Hendry) is putting a terrible...

Owen Thompson | 598 c136 (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Graham Allen | 598 c136 (Link to this contribution)

In a moment. Why do we need that document? I gently remind the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, ...

Owen Thompson | 598 c136 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend the Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew Hendry) mentioned t...

David Amess | 598 c137 (Link to this contribution)

Order. This is very ingenious, but I would be grateful if the hon. Gentleman kindly related his r...

Graham Allen | 598 cc137-8 (Link to this contribution)

Certainly, Sir David. You are right to admonish the hon. Gentleman for trying to lure me, yet aga...

Chris Stephens | 598 c138 (Link to this contribution)

Are you referring to the Conservatives or us?

Graham Allen | 598 c138 (Link to this contribution)

Those who feel that they are being referred to should take that upon themselves, but surely they ...

Brendan O'Hara | 598 c138 (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman reflect on his terminology and on “bitter separatists”? Much of what he s...

Graham Allen | 598 c138 (Link to this contribution)

I seem to touch a nerve every time I use the word “separatist” to describe those people who wish ...

Graham Allen | 598 c139 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way to the hon. Member for St Albans (Mrs Main).

Anne Main | 598 c139 (Link to this contribution)

I was hoping to suggest “ardent” so that we can all move on a little.

Graham Allen | 598 c139 (Link to this contribution)

I am happy with that—some are ardent and some are not so ardent, but whether they are separatists...

Oliver Heald | 598 c139 (Link to this contribution)

I am sure the hon. Gentleman will agree that one cannot be too sensitive in a place where our vis...

Graham Allen | 598 c139 (Link to this contribution)

Again, we can get hung up on the words, and the Office for Budget Responsibility could argue abou...

Drew Hendry | 598 c139 (Link to this contribution)

I was not looking at a good game, but I thank the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to intervene. I ...

Graham Allen | 598 c139 (Link to this contribution)

Again, that confusion of the SNP equalling Scotland; I do not regard that—

Graham Allen | 598 c140 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, but I think 6% of the United Kingdom electorate voted for the SNP, so if we get into statist...

Wayne David | 598 c140 (Link to this contribution)

We have heard a great deal about the fact there are 56 SNP Members. We are debating the Scotland ...

David Amess | 598 c140 (Link to this contribution)

Order. Before the hon. Member for Nottingham North (Mr Allen) responds to that intervention, may ...

Graham Allen | 598 c140 (Link to this contribution)

If other hon. Members wish to speak—forgive me, but I did not see anyone else rising—it is a very...

Callum McCaig | 598 cc140-1 (Link to this contribution)

Amendment 154 addresses the consultation process on the renewable electricity incentive schemes. ...

Andrea Leadsom | 598 cc141-2 (Link to this contribution)

I am delighted to respond this evening. We have heard a wide range of views—albeit some ranging a...

Jim Shannon | 598 c142 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister refers to how to address the price of energy in different regions of the United King...

Andrea Leadsom | 598 c142 (Link to this contribution)

I think the hon. Gentleman means an interconnector. I am absolutely a huge fan of interconnectors...

Callum McCaig | 598 c142 (Link to this contribution)

The Smith commission refers to

“a formal consultative role for the Scottish Government and ...

Andrea Leadsom | 598 c143 (Link to this contribution)

Let me reassure the hon. Gentleman that we are talking about consultation with the Scottish Parli...

Graham Allen | 598 c143 (Link to this contribution)

I agree with what the hon. Lady is saying, but will she also touch on the rights of local governm...

Andrea Leadsom | 598 cc143-4 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has...

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