Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Martyn Day and Alan Brown

Thursday 18th November 2021 Commons Chamber

[Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk) (SNP)]

3. Whether she has had discussions with the Home Secretary on proposals in the Nationality and Borders Bill to intercept small boats and return asylum seekers to France.

[Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)]

11. What recent discussions she has had with the Home Secretary on the Nationality and Borders Bill proposals to intercept small boats and return asylum seekers to France.

[The Attorney General (Suella Braverman)]

The traffickers organising these dangerous crossings are putting lives at risk, and it is vital that we do everything we can to protect them and prevent them from operating from France. We must break the business model of criminal gangs exploiting vulnerable people. Our position is clear: people should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach, and they should not risk their lives by making these dangerous journeys across the channel.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Martyn Day and Alan Brown

Wednesday 12th June 2019 Commons Chamber

[Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk) (SNP)]

7. What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the effect of the acceleration of the equalisation of the state pension age on women born in the 1950s.

[Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)]

9. What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the effect of the acceleration of the equalisation of the state pension age on women born in the 1950s.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Martyn Day and Alan Brown

Wednesday 21st November 2018 Commons Chamber

[Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)]

5. Whether the Government have plans to devolve functions of her Department to the devolved Administrations.

[Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk) (SNP)]

14. Whether the Government have plans to devolve functions of her Department to the devolved Administrations.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Martyn Day and Alan Brown

Wednesday 24th October 2018 Commons Chamber

[Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)]

3. What representations he has received from the Welsh Government on the design of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

[Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk) (SNP)]

12. What representations he has received from the Welsh Government on the design of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Martyn Day and Alan Brown

Tuesday 23rd October 2018 Commons Chamber

[Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)]

12. What assessment he has made of the potential effect on access to new medicines of the UK leaving the EU.

[Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk) (SNP)]

20. What assessment he has made of the potential effect on access to new medicines of the UK leaving the EU.

Referendum on Scottish Independence

Debate between Martyn Day and Alan Brown

Monday 13th November 2017 Westminster Hall

[Alan Brown]

I think that the key word there is “possibly”.

[Martyn Day]

Perhaps what Alex Salmond was hinting at was that when the devolution referendums took place, it took from 1979 to 1997 to get a re-run. That assumption was made without the belief that circumstances would change as materially as they are now about to.

[Alan Brown]

If the facts change, we have the right to change our minds in line with the facts, and we weigh that up going forward.