Dec. 08 2023
Source Page: Independence Referendum Bill Supreme Court Correspondence: FOI releaseFound: Independence Referendum Bill Supreme Court Correspondence: FOI release
Feb. 02 2024
Source Page: Building a New Scotland papers: downloadable versionsFound: commitment to deliver – a referendum, to give the people of Scotland the choice of independence.
Oral Evidence Apr. 22 2024
Inquiry: Intergovernmental relations: 25 years since the Scotland Act 1998Found: I almost feel like we do not need to ask any more questions now, but we will give it a bash.
Mentions:
1: Forbes, Kate (SNP - Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) the substance of the report, we do not have unanimous support for the resolution. - Speech Link
2: Brown, Keith (SNP - Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) Since the independence referendum, we have been repeatedly told that we are the most powerful devolved - Speech Link
3: Dunbar, Jackie (SNP - Aberdeen Donside) For a lot of folk, the 2016 referendum was not just about how the EU mattered to their lives; it was - Speech Link
4: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) That contrasts with the current system under which, for example, if this Parliament refuses to give consent - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) In both, a demographic inevitability is often cited in favour of Scottish independence and Irish unity - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) I do not think anybody with any sense of history can fail to be affected by the penumbra of Scottish - Speech Link
Feb. 02 2024
Source Page: Building a New Scotland papers: downloadable versionsFound: give Scotland the full powers of independence.
Mentions:
1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) section 30 independence referendum is not going to happen for the foreseeable future. - Speech Link
2: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) That would transfer the power to legislate for a Scottish independence referendum to the Scottish Parliament.Let - Speech Link
3: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) I will give way another time. - Speech Link
4: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) Member makes very valid points, but the key point is that support for independence and another independence - Speech Link
5: Angus Brendan MacNeil (Ind - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) If the campaign for Scottish independence is doing as badly as the Minister says, why not hold your referendum - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bibby, Neil (Lab - West Scotland) The truth is that the Parliament and the Scottish people do not need a made-up debate on Europe. - Speech Link
2: Golden, Maurice (Con - North East Scotland) referendum, which would then trigger the adoption of a fantasy interim constitution, before another - Speech Link
3: Kidd, Bill (SNP - Glasgow Anniesland) positive relationship with the rest of the UK, I do not believe that, for those who are against independence - Speech Link
4: Rennie, Willie (LD - North East Fife) That is another issue that the SNP simply did not address. - Speech Link
Oral Evidence May. 20 2024
Inquiry: Intergovernmental Relations: The Civil ServiceFound: They did have to give legislative consent to that Bill, which they did.
Mentions:
1: Earl of Kinnoull (XB - Excepted Hereditary) independence referendum was in September 2014. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Drake (Lab - Life peer) Take, for example, the UK Internal Market Act, passed without the legislative consent of the Scottish - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (XB - Life peer) not prepare enough when they are applying for jobs in Scotland and Wales because they do not appreciate - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) I do not have a further update to give to the House at this stage.I will draw my remarks to a close so - Speech Link