Speeches by Doogan.

“I want to explore your last point about the jobs that will be protected at Grangemouth. Is it too early to say whether there is any read across from the jobs that are at threat in Mossmorran? Is it too early to say whether there are opportunities there, given the recentness of the statement and the announcement on Gran…”

“Ms Stevenson, can we go back to the dynamic between the UK Government and the Scottish Government? When you spoke in response to Mr McAllister you highlighted what is being achieved, or what has been sought to be achieved, through Fife council working alongside PACE in support of affected staff. I am sure that the UK G…”

“I am just digesting that for a minute. There is a concern that the £1 billion that Mossmorran needs is actually backlog maintenance that should have been getting done anyway, but from your answer just there the £1 billion that could be invested in Mossmorran—if there was a business case for that—is to facilitate the wh…”

“Can you remind us who makes up the joint taskforce that is being led by Fife council?”

“I absolutely do agree. I am in full accord with those Members’ bravery on the APR, but I am not sure how that links directly to 3p a mile for electric vehicles. The point is made, though. The preamble to the Budget was hugely challenging and had a direct consequence on the markets. It caused people to freeze employment…”

“The right hon. Gentleman anticipates my next paragraph. The energy profits levy should be coming to an end, but it has been extended by this Labour Government until 2030. That has caused 100 job losses from Harbour Energy, and it is causing 1,000 job losses every month, according to Offshore Energies UK. We are in this…”

“My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Does he agree with me—and, I think I am right in saying, with the hon. Member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (David Chadwick)—that agriculture in Wales and Scotland forms a very much larger part of our economies than it does in England, and it is therefore particularly objec…”

“The hon. Gentleman was obviously not listening. The increase to the block grant is spread over the entire spending review period—five years—and it does not cover more than half of the cost faced by the Scottish Government as a result of the increase in employers national insurance imposed by the same Chancellor. I am g…”

“I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Will she concede that approximately three quarters of the last three hours of debate on this Bill has been devoted to the egregious family farm tax, including two noble and articulate contributions from Labour Beck Benchers, which took some bravery? Will she take that messa…”

“On that point, will the Minister give way?”

“The SNP will not support a Second Reading. This Bill derives from a Budget that failed to deliver for Scotland and does nothing to move the dial for the households hammered by the cost of living crisis. Scotland was relying on a step change from this Labour Government—on investment in public services, jobs and industry…”

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“The Minister will know that for the vast majority of employees in Scotland, the increase in the national living wage is redundant, because it is less than the Scottish living wage. He talks about the things that the Government increased in the Budget; was it their intention to increase unemployment by 25% as a result o…”

“I can only guess that Reform UK is polling quite high in Glasgow East. On his substantive point about child poverty, is the hon. Member relieved that his constituents in Glasgow East are benefiting from the fact that under the SNP, Scotland is the only part of the United Kingdom where child poverty rates are falling?”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Is the right hon. Gentleman as concerned as I am that this is a spreadsheet Budget concerned with little more than the number in the bottom right-hand corner? That is why everything is unravelling so catastrophically. On his BPR point, I have nothing against PLCs, but does he agree further that businesses that are owne…”

“Does the shadow Chancellor bristle like I do and like my constituents in Angus and Perthshire Glens who are engaged in farm businesses and agribusiness more generally when they hear Ministers make a false equivalence in talking about the generous rates of agricultural property relief compared with the wider economy and…”

“Will the hon. Gentleman give way?”

“Defence innovation is harmed by a default America-first posture. Ironically, that is especially apparent in the so-called independent nuclear deterrent, which relies on US tech for fusing, firing, arming, neutron initiators, the gas transfer system and the mark 4 aeroshell. We can add to that the purchase of further F-…”

“For the UK Government to decline to take part in the atrocity prevention programme in Sudan is regrettable, and for the UK Government to fail in their due diligence on arms export diversions via the UAE to the RSF is disgraceful, but for the UK Government to have done both looks alarmingly like ambivalence or even comp…”