Speeches by Doogan.

“One thing that unites the Prime Minister of Israel and the supreme leader of Iran is that neither could care less about what the UK Prime Minister says, and it is difficult to imagine that the US President is not in a similar camp. With fiscal headroom evaporating, business confidence vanishing and household budgets be…”

“Thank you, Chair. Are you all aware that when we say £20 million from the £182 million, that is £20 million between the devolved nations, not each for the devolved nations? It is a share of £20 million; it is not even £20 million. Were you aware of that?”

“I am very happy to explain that to the hon. Lady when I get to that element of my speech, which I will in due course. The other thing that really irritates me about this Government is the way that they talk about the just transition. They say, “We will be using fossil fuels for another 50 years, and we will be producin…”

“It is from the £182 million. I will move on to question No. 10 if that is okay, Chair. One of the great things about the way apprenticeships have developed is that you don’t miss the boat now in the way that you did when we were all younger. On the role of upskilling mid-career workers for defence related roles, does t…”

“How could I not give way to the Scottish Labour MP who has managed to come in here for the tail end of the debate?”

“This is where I practise respectful disagreement. For rural areas such as my constituency, the constituency of the hon. Member for Gordon and Buchan, and many other places across all four nations, this issue is really challenging. There is not limited access to public transport in many places such as ours; there is no …”

“So there was no negotiation, then.”

“We talked about the PR role of “not just a career in engineering” although there is so much more that can be done with that. If I think of the people who I served my time with now as aircraft engineers, they are all over the world doing all manner of things in all range of different disciplines. I worry that younger pe…”

“Forgive me, Professor Hopgood, I was listening intently but not intently enough to what you said about the investment that MOD is making in universities in England. Do you happen to know, was that investment from the Ministry of Defence or was it from the Department for Education?”

“What is the scheme called?”

“Before the hon. Lady gets back to her feet, she asked me about tax and she should be aware—although apparently she is not—that most income tax payers in Scotland pay less tax. Over and above that, her constituents do not have to pay for their tuition fees when they go to university. All her constituents, like my consti…”

“I raised this entirely inevitable circumstance with the Chancellor at the spring statement, and she did something that she is given to do, which was to glaze over briefly and then talk about the strength and broad shoulders of the Treasury because of the difficult decisions that she had taken, as though they affected h…”

“The date on it is?”

“Mr Donoghue, you expressed concern with capacity and demand outstripping supply in apprenticeship places within Scotland. I see that the Scottish Government’s budget supported around 25,000 modern apprenticeships, and there are more than 39,000 in train at the minute. That is roughly 60,000-odd in a population of 5.5 m…”

“rose—”

“Thank you. To that end, Mr Metcalfe, you talked about the importance of defence in Fife College. I don’t think it is a stretch to say that were it not for the prevalence of defence manufacturing in Fife, there might have been a new campus at Dunfermline, but it would not have been a £155 million investment in a new cam…”

“I do not have the detail of the Scottish Government’s plans, but I am pretty sure that nobody in England or anywhere else in the United Kingdom has received actual monetary support from that funding. Let us be really clear. The Chancellor talks about the broad shoulders of the Treasury and says that thanks to her fisca…”

“What evidence did the Chancellor have to suggest there was profiteering in petrol retailing? The Petrol Retailers Association rightly took umbrage at the implication of the Chancellor; I think that did not go quite the way that she thought it would.”

“Defence is a long-held and valued element of the Scottish economy. Scotland has a proud martial tradition stretching back hundreds of years. Added to its tradition of innovation, it is no wonder that we have so many primes in Scotland delivering outstanding equipment to a global market, but sometimes there is a bit of …”

“The shadow Secretary of State mentioned his perception of the intransigence of this Labour Government, to which I would add their brittle hubris in their pursuit of not achieving any form of economic growth. Does he agree that the Chancellor would not have to keep dipping into the pockets of hard-working people in the …”