Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Allan Dorans

Monday 28th February 2022 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We did try to arrange with the Home Secretary’s office that the statement should be up to 500 words. I think we will find that that was beyond 800 words; it took six minutes. I think the House would have benefited from an actual statement. If we cannot have one tomorrow morning, I suggest someone might like to put in for an urgent question, because I believe the House would benefit from that, as there was so much in what the Home Secretary said. I will be extending topicals.

[Allan Dorans (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) (SNP)]

T2. Will the Home Secretary listen to the 50 organisations, including Save the Children and Amnesty International, that wrote a joint letter in The Times last week calling for the Ukraine crisis to lead to a rethink on the Nationality and Borders Bill, which discriminates against refugees depending on how they reach our shores?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Allan Dorans

Tuesday 16th March 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Can I just reassure you, Secretary of State, that they were not laughing at you? I think it was the expressions of the shadow Minister that they were laughing at—and people might think that those on the Government side were, too. I just want to reassure you that nobody was laughing at that situation.

[Allan Dorans (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) (SNP)]

What plans he has to amend the Human Rights Act 1998.

Covid-19: Road Map

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Allan Dorans

Monday 22nd February 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Welcome to rugby league!

[Allan Dorans (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) (SNP) [V]]

Analysis by the Royal College of General Practitioners of NHS England’s covid-19 vaccination figures shows that people of black ethnicity are half as likely as people of white ethnicity to get vaccinated and people of Asian ethnicity are under two thirds as likely as their white counterparts to accept vaccination. What additional specific steps will the Prime Minister take to encourage greater uptake of the vaccine in those communities?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Allan Dorans

Wednesday 11th November 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We now go to Allan Dorans in Scotland.

[Allan Dorans [V]]

Thank you, Mr Speaker—[Interruption.]

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[Mr Speaker]

We are going to try to return to Allan Dorans.

[Allan Dorans [V]]

Will the Minister confirm or deny that taxpayers’ money is being used to employ consultants with the sole purpose of producing and promoting negative propaganda to encounter the increasingly successful campaign for Scottish independence? Is that not to the detriment of co-operation between the nations?

[Iain Stewart]

Forgive me, Mr Speaker, but I am not quite sure what that has got to do with the response to coronavirus.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Allan Dorans

Wednesday 20th May 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We go north of the border, to Allan Dorans.

[Allan Dorans (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) (SNP) [V]]

Will the Prime Minister condemn or condone the reckless behaviour of the Secretary of State for Scotland in making a round trip of almost 700 miles to be physically in the Chamber today, in clear breach of the guidance from the Scottish Government to stay home, protect the NHS and save lives, when he could easily have taken part in the proceedings virtually from the safety of his home? Condemn or condone, Prime Minister?