Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Colin Clark Excerpts
Wednesday 16th January 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Colin Clark Portrait Colin Clark (Gordon) (Con)
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Tax divergence by the Scottish Government is damaging my Gordon constituency, which is struggling to attract overseas workers to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and the oil and gas industry. Does the Secretary of State agree that this is economic madness and that it makes Scotland unattractive?

David Mundell Portrait David Mundell
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As I have said many times in the Chamber, I remain at an absolute loss to understand why the SNP thinks that making Scotland the most highly taxed part of the United Kingdom is an attractive proposition to bring people to Scotland.