Margaret Curran
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(11 years, 4 months ago)
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David Mundell
I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. The benefits issue is an example of where, simply to curry favour with the electorate, the SNP Scottish Government are making promises that they could not possibly keep in an independent Scotland.
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East) (Lab)
Will the Minister tell the House how many members of the armed forces in Scotland will see their incomes cut as a result of last night’s vote?
David Mundell
Last night’s vote was about ensuring that we have a sustainable welfare system. The hon. Lady’s answer on all these issues is more borrowing, more spending and more debt. She cannot say how she would fund the rises in benefit for which she voted.
Margaret Curran
What a disappointing answer. The answer is 4,000 members of the armed forces. There might be a Liberal Democrat leading the Scotland Office, but Scots can see that this Government are just the same old Tories. In 2010, the Department told us that it had
“absolutely no desire to see people losing their jobs or being in worse circumstances than they were in before”.
Will the Minister explain why the Government are failing the test that they set themselves?
David Mundell
What the people of Scotland know is that it is the same old Labour: there is no apology for the mess that it left the economy in and its only proposal is more spending, more borrowing and more debt.