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Oral Answers to Questions

Baroness May of Maidenhead Excerpts
Wednesday 23rd November 2022

(2 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Rishi Sunak Portrait The Prime Minister
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The challenges we face right now are those that require co-operation between our Governments: tackling the economy and supporting the NHS. I am pleased that last week’s autumn statement means that the Scottish Government will receive £1.5 billion in extra funding to deliver for public services in Scotland, and that is what we will continue doing.

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead) (Con)
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Scotland is a proud nation with a unique heritage. It is a valued member of our family of nations—a Union of people bound through the generations by shared interests. Does my right hon. Friend agree that this morning’s Supreme Court decision gives the Scottish nationalists—the SNP—the opportunity, for once, to put the people of Scotland first and end their obsession with breaking us apart?

Rishi Sunak Portrait The Prime Minister
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My right hon. Friend puts it very well.