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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 23 Nov 2022
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) Conservative Members do not like their record—that is the problem. So, let us try another way. - Speech Link
2: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) Scotland voted for a Scottish Parliament with the majority and the mandate to deliver an independence - Speech Link
3: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) The Scottish Parliament now has the biggest majority for an independence referendum in the history of - Speech Link
4: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) What democratic right do the Government have to deny Scottish democracy, refuse an independence referendum - Speech Link
5: Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) The Prime Minister will not answer, but it is obvious that the route to Scottish independence is now - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Scottish Referendum Legislation: Supreme Court Decision - Wed 23 Nov 2022
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Alister Jack (CON - Dumfries and Galloway) Polling shows the Scottish people do not want another referendum. - Speech Link
2: Alister Jack (CON - Dumfries and Galloway) As I have said, less than a third of Scots want another independence referendum. - Speech Link
3: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) He and all the other Tories say that we cannot have another referendum because we do not want to foment - Speech Link
4: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) have another independence referendum until every person who voted in the 2014 referendum was dead. - Speech Link
5: Alister Jack (CON - Dumfries and Galloway) I will give the same answer that I have always given, which is that we believe a referendum is not the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for British Farming - Wed 23 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) If there is not an opportunity there for public money for a public good, then I do not know where there - Speech Link
2: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) We are not run by DEFRA—for which we can give perhaps something of a sigh of a relief when it comes to - Speech Link
3: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) we have had today is about the independence of Scotland. - Speech Link
4: Simon Jupp (CON - East Devon) Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) seems to disagree with the referendum result—’twas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
2nd reading: Part 1 - Wed 23 Nov 2022
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Viscount Brookeborough (CB - Excepted Hereditary) will not give closure. - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) For those who do not know the geography of Ayrshire, Kilwinning is a really important railway hub. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 01 Nov 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) UK that do not historically get financing. - Speech Link
2: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) I am pleased that each Government have supported the bank, and discussions for a legislative consent - Speech Link
3: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) To date, the Scottish Institute for Remanufacturing has committed substantial sums to support Scottish - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Edwards (IND - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) Wales was promised “not a penny less” during the referendum campaign, so a benchmark figure should be - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Government of Wales (Devolved Powers) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 28 Oct 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) Let me give some examples. - Speech Link
2: Lord Empey (UUP - Life peer) If you do not like it, get rid of it; but if you do devolve, you must respect what you devolve, and that - Speech Link
3: Lord Anderson of Swansea (LAB - Life peer) How do we have that respect, which we do not have at the moment, between the different component parts - Speech Link
4: Baroness Humphreys (LDEM - Life peer) These were all Bills for which the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments withheld legislative consent, indicating - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Brendan Clarke-Smith (CON - Bassetlaw) mandate in Scotland from the independence referendum to remain part of this precious Union. - Speech Link
2: Giles Watling (CON - Clacton) Should there not be a legislated timeframe—say, 25 years—before another referendum can be held? - Speech Link
3: Brendan Clarke-Smith (CON - Bassetlaw) talking about yet another independence referendum. - Speech Link
4: Rachel Hopkins (LAB - Luton South) them and another for our hard-working civil servants? - Speech Link
5: Brendan Clarke-Smith (CON - Bassetlaw) Scottish Parliament or another devolved Administration without consulting the devolved institution and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) recognise the even clearer mandate for an independence referendum, as laid out in multiple SNP manifestos - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) Lady asks me why we do not acknowledge the mandate to have a referendum. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) Planning committees need to give due regard to infrastructure not just for developments but, for example - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) The Scottish Parliament has been reluctant to give legislative consent motions to any Brexit-related - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) so without the consent of Scottish Ministers or the Scottish Parliament, and that that will represent - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) Let us give ourselves time for the assessment process. Do not rush the changes. - Speech Link
4: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) I say to them, “Please do not pursue another dangerous ideological experiment at the cost of our constituents - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights Legislation Reform - Mon 24 Oct 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Scott Benton (CON - Blackpool South) I do not believe for one second that that would be the case. - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Member for Bromley and Chislehurst indicated, another benefit of the Human Rights Act is that it has - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) They do not really need to go any further than that. - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) pursue reform of the HRA without the consent of the Scottish Parliament”.Well, that consent has not - Speech Link
5: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) The Scottish Government have a clear manifesto pledge to deliver an independence referendum. - Speech Link