Speeches by Doogan.

“Will the right hon. Lady give way?”

“Will the right hon. Lady give way?”

“The three fatalities from Stirling that the hon. Member for Stirling and Strathallan (Chris Kane) has just set out so eloquently were three of the 135,000 men and women who died from Scotland during world war one. There were almost 60,000 Scots casualties in world war two, and more still in campaigns thereafter in Mala…”

“We should all be concerned about the skills and development. It is a very important element—I am a product of it from an EFI college—but I would hate, Secretary of State, for you to inadvertently, through leading questions, create an impression where everything is rosy in the garden in England and a complete basket cas…”

“I am a little concerned that this is coming across as a bit churlish, and I hope you can help to dispel that. It seems to me in answer to Angus that if it had not been devolved, if the UK Government had made a direct support grant to the industry, you would have given Scotland its proportionate share of the fishing val…”

“He was reading his last answer to a very detailed question. That is what sparked it.”

“That was not apparent in your press releases.”

“Did you see and have an understanding of what the line of questioning would be in advance?”

“I do not know if it is in order, Chair. Did you have advance sight of the questions before this session, Secretary of State?”

“Good morning, Secretary of State. It is nice to see you. In your introduction you referenced priorities including energy. The prospectus that the people of Scotland were offered at the general election was a national energy company, GB Energy, headquartered in Aberdeen. I do not want to get into an argument about the j…”

“A lot of your answer contained references to respect, Secretary of State, which I completely agree with. Do you agree with your colleague, the Secretary of State for Defence, who yesterday refused to say whether China was a risk to national security, but said that the Scottish Government were a risk to national securit…”

“Is this—”

“I am not much interested in what your party or even my party wants. I am interested in fulfilling the constitutional ambition of the Scottish people and there is no means to do that in the absence of a referendum, which you are obviously quite keen to deny. Do you not believe that there is a significant appetite in Sco…”

“Secretary of State, the First Minister in Scotland has claimed that the SNP priority at the next election is a mandate for a new independence referendum. Do you agree with that assessment?”

“Thank you.”

“Could you let the Committee know how many hotels are in Scotland?”

“How many of those 200 are in Scotland?”

“Secretary of State, did you say it is down to 200? That is UK-wide?”

“The wait lists have gone down.”

“Which he does weekly. But to be clear, and I think I am picking it up in your answer, as long as you decide independence is not a priority for Scotland, regardless of the sovereignty of the Scottish people, the choice over independence will be continued to be denied to the people of Scotland, even now when polling for …”