Scotland Bill

Moved by

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

My Lords, I am grateful to the House for giving me the opportunity to move the amendment. I am pa...

My Lords, I support the amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth. I can be brief becaus...

My Lords, the point that the noble and learned Lord, Lord McCluskey, made at the end of his brief...

My Lords, I wish to make it clear from the start that the Labour Party will not support the amend...

Can the noble Lord explain why accepting the amendment should kill off the negotiations? Surely i...

I can understand why the noble Lord makes that point, but the nation and country of Scotland is a...

All my amendment does is say that we should not proceed with the Committee stage until we have th...

The noble Lord will have to accept that I do not agree with him on this, and I do not think he wi...

Does the noble Lord accept my noble friend Lord Forsyth’s argument that Scotland will lose out if...

The time to discuss the fiscal framework will be when public announcements are made. With all due...

Does the noble Lord accept that he is making the Scottish people sound really stupid, whereas in ...

The noble Lord, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, is absolutely right. The Scottish people are too intelli...

Cheap!

Cheap? I have been called worse. I take the point of view that we must be allowed to get on with ...

Before the noble Lord sits down, does he agree that it would be sensible at least to respond to w...

With due respect to the noble Baroness, that would send the message to Scotland from this House, ...

It may assist the noble Lord if he were to remind those who seem to mistrust this House that the ...

The noble Baroness has not addressed my response that the mood in Scotland is such that, correctl...

My Lords, I hesitate to enter this debate, especially as it has been going on for a long time and...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, for enabling us to have this debate on the sorry ...

My Lords, I, too, share many of the concerns raised by the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth. We have reac...

My Lords, I should mention first that I was an MSP for the first eight years of the Scottish Parl...

My proposal was that the Act should not commence until this House and the House of Commons had ap...

My noble friend’s suggestion does not seem to have the disadvantages of the amendment, which I wi...

If the House will allow me to make a brief observation about the process, I will not detain it mu...

My Lords, we should be coming to a conclusion, so I do not wish to detain your Lordships for long...

My Lords, all of this emphasises the need for more open government. We have very limited informat...

I accept the point that the noble Lord has made about the dangers but does he not see that that i...

If that is the case, we must flush the SNP out on this, and we must be transparent and open about...

My Lords, the Economic Affairs Committee, which I chair, and the Constitution Committee both conc...

My Lords, I have a great deal of sympathy with the remarks made by many Members of this House on ...

My Lords, I wish to intervene very briefly. We are indebted today to my noble friend Lord Forsyth...

My Lords, I want to briefly support my noble friend Lord Darling and, indeed, endorse the point m...

My Lords, I would like to say a word or two about the fiscal framework, which I agree is fundamen...

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate for their contributions. Before I addre...

I apologise to my noble friend if that is the case, but I asked the Clerk to the Economic Affairs...

Well, it was certainly signed off by me, and my understanding was that the letters had gone off, ...

My Lords, was that it? We have had a splendid debate with a lot of suggestions. I think there was...