Does the noble Lord think it is conceivable that it might have dawned on the SNP that in moving from a block grant, which is 20% more per head of population than the rest of the UK, towards a point where a large part of that is substituted by a tax-raising power where the tax base is not 20% higher, there is going to be a gap? Does he think that they are deliberately not reaching agreement because they do not want to face an election telling the Scottish people that there will be less money?
Scotland Bill
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Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 24 November 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Scotland Bill.
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