Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Scotland Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Anne McGuire Excerpts
Wednesday 2nd July 2014

(10 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alistair Carmichael Portrait Mr Carmichael
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I will take absolutely no lectures from the Scottish nationalists on the subject of confrontational approaches. It really is a mark of the desperation of the position in which they find themselves that that is the best they can come up with.

Anne McGuire Portrait Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State commented on the Ernst and Young report, and it also identified that although investment was increasing, the number of jobs related to that inward investment was decreasing. I wonder what action the Minister can take, hopefully in co-operation with the Scottish Government, to ensure that there is greater correlation between investment and jobs created in Scotland.

Alistair Carmichael Portrait Mr Carmichael
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The right hon. Lady points to a direction in which sensible politics ought to go, and I would love to be working in that way with the Scottish Government. Unfortunately, however, it takes two to tango.