Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Sally-Ann Hart Excerpts
Wednesday 29th November 2023

(11 months, 4 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alister Jack Portrait Mr Jack
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I absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend. The A75, along with the A77, came up as a vital route in the Union connectivity review by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill—Sir Peter Hendy as he was at the time. We are finally working with the Scottish Government, and the UK Government are funding a feasibility study for the upgrade of the A75. I am delighted that progress is being made.

Sally-Ann Hart Portrait Sally-Ann Hart (Hastings and Rye) (Con)
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Is it not the case that the Scottish Government have consistently strayed outside the limits of the devolution settlements, so it is very difficult to take the SNP seriously as a defender of devolution when it has so little respect for the current settlement?

Alister Jack Portrait Mr Jack
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My hon. Friend is right. Everyone forgets that the Scottish Government get up every day and go to work to destroy devolution and the United Kingdom. The defenders of devolution and the strengtheners of the United Kingdom are this Government.