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Lords Chamber
The Union (Constitution Committee Report) - Fri 20 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Dunlop (CON - Life peer) Scottish independence is posed as the most immediate threat yet, despite recent turmoil, the independence - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bryan of Partick (LAB - Life peer) people was acknowledged through the 1997 referendum and the subsequent establishment of the Scottish - Speech Link
3: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) not think that it will ever get through because they do not have much support for it. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) I thank him for his contribution, and I will give it some thought. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 18 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) The Scottish Government are not giving their consent. - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) the referendum, I do support the premise of the Bill. - Speech Link
3: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) this is not in our interest and we do not consent to it.We saw yesterday that a UK Government can strike - Speech Link
4: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) Will the Minister respect the right of the Scottish Parliament not to give consent to this Bill? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power - Tue 17 Jan 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) independence referendum, irrespective of the views of the people of Scotland. - Speech Link
2: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) I do not beg to speak for the rest of my colleagues. - Speech Link
3: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) to give consent in devolved areas? - Speech Link
4: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) an intimate examination, but that is a story for another day and I do not have time to examine it here.I - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
2nd reading - Tue 17 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Earl of Lytton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Historically, many councils take the view that any alteration, minor or not, requires formal consent, - Speech Link
2: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) or of the Scottish Parliament. - Speech Link
3: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) If they do not, the plan is not sound, and if they do not have a sound plan in place, they should not - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) said and ask for their forgiveness if I do not mention everyone by name. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Report stage - Wed 07 Dec 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Scottish independence at 56%—by jings! - Speech Link
2: Harriett Baldwin (CON - West Worcestershire) The vast majority of our constituents do not pay and are not willing to pay for it. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) it has been advocated for on many occasions during the referendum campaign and on many occasions since - Speech Link
4: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) Of course, as we expected, the FCA says it does not want another objective. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Independence Referendum for Scotland - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) The reason the judgment did not give the referendum was because, if it happened—even if it had limited - Speech Link
2: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) to hold a referendum on Scottish independence. - Speech Link
3: John Lamont (CON - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) about another referendum. - Speech Link
4: John Lamont (CON - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) People across Scotland just do not accept that now is the time for another divisive referendum.At this - Speech Link
5: Peter Bone (CON - Wellingborough) I am not quite sure what that point has got to do with the referendum. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2022 - Tue 29 Nov 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) the Scottish Government, £1.2 billion for the Welsh Government and £650 million for the Northern Ireland - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman (CB - Life peer) We do not need to overcomplicate this. We do not need new legislation. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) Why do the Government not do this? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) The Scottish Government have done that; I cannot see why we could not do it here. - Speech Link
5: Lord Rogan (UUP - Life peer) This was disappointing on two levels.First, by common consentnot a normal occasion in Northern Ireland - Speech Link


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