Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between Lucy Rigby and Harriet Cross(1 month ago)
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The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Lucy Rigby)
The Pride in Place programme provides £5.8 billion of support to 284 neighbourhoods right across the country, including five places in my hon. Friend’s constituency, which she does so much to advocate for. We will set out more details of further funding in the Budget.
Harriet Cross (Gordon and Buchan) (Con)
In my constituency, we have lost the Scotbeef abattoir and the famous Donald Russell butchers in recent months, both of which were crucial to the agricultural supply chain. Both blamed high energy costs and the increased costs of doing business, such as the huge rises in national insurance under this Government and big business rate rises under the SNP. What steps is the Treasury taking to support, not suffocate, the agricultural supply chain and other crucial elements of the farming sector?
Attorney General’s Office: Conflicts of Interest
Debate between Lucy Rigby and Harriet Cross(1 year, 6 months ago)
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Harriet Cross (Gordon and Buchan) (Con)
Does the Minister accept that the Law Officers’ convention does not extend to questions of recusal or conflicts of interest, and that the House and the British people have the right to have questions on those matters answered transparently?
The Solicitor General
I have been abundantly clear on this: where the Attorney General has conflicts, he will recuse himself. The Law Officers’ convention does not permit me to say in relation to which matters he has recused himself, because in doing so I would reveal the matters that the Law Officers have been asked to advise on, or indeed have advised on.